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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