The Malta Summit, a meeting between U.S. President George H. W. Bush and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev, which took place on board the Soviet cruise ship Maxim Gorky in Malta on December 2–3, 1989. U.S. President George H. W. Bush, left, and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, right, before the meeting.
