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PRESS CONFERENCE GIVEN BY THE PRIME MINISTER,
MRS. THATCHER, FROM ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE,
WASHINGTON, USA, ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1984
PRIME MINISTER
Vice-President
As you know, we have had talks with the President
this morning and there were also present:
Bush, Secretary Shultz, National Security Adviser Nr.
McFarlane, our respective Ambassadors, and Mr. Burt.
We discussed, mainly, East-West relations and
disarmament control talks. I also briefed the President on
my talks with Mr. Gorbachev. We discussed the Middle East
and the Lebanon, Central America, the economy and the
famine in Africa, and I also briefed the President on the
state of my talks with Mr. Garret FitzGerald.
I think it might perhaps be most helpful if I gave
you in more detail, before opening the meeting to questions,
the kind of things that we were talking about in
disarmament control talks.
President Reagan and I have had a very thorough and
extensive discussion of the prospects for arms control
negotiations, in the course of which we also naturally
touched on the Strategic Defence Initiative. I was not
surprised to discover that we see matters in very much the
same light. I told the President that I have made it