>>The Russian Federation spent three decades articulating its political will to pursue international cooperation and friendly relations with all countries, as envisaged in General Assembly Resolution 2625. It made valid overtures and concrete proposals for cooperation and building a joint European house based on sovereign equality and comprehensive national security.
It is a great loss for all of humanity that Gorbachev’s peace initiatives were not taken up by the U.S. and NATO and that promises made in 1989-91 by U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and others were not kept.<<