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Meeting With President L. I. Brezhnev of the Soviet Union Announcement of the Forthcoming Meeting in Vienna, Austria.

May 11, 1979

By mutual agreement, the meeting of the President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, with the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R., Leonid Brezhnev, will take place from June 15 to 18 in Vienna, Austria.

The two leaders will confirm and sign the treaty on the limitation of strategic offensive arms, the work on which is now being completed, and will discuss other issues of mutual interest to the United States and the Soviet Union.

Note: Zbigniew Brzezinski, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, read the announcement at 10:45 a.m. to reporters assembled in the Briefing Room at the White House.

Jimmy Carter, Meeting With President L. I. Brezhnev of the Soviet Union Announcement of the Forthcoming Meeting in Vienna, Austria. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/249220

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