Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze speaks at a joint meeting of foreign affairs commissions of the Council of the Union and the Council of Nationalities of the USSR Supreme Soviet (Parliament) on ratifying the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty, formally Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles), signed December 8, 1987 in Washington DC by General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev and President of the United States Ronald Reagan.
