Washington Summit (1987)

Washington Summit
Reagan and Gorbachev in the White House
Host country	United States
Date	December 8–10, 1987
Venue(s)	White House
Cities	Washington, D.C.
Participants	Mikhail Gorbachev Ronald Reagan
Follows	Reykjavík Summit
Precedes	Moscow Summit (1988)

The Washington Summit of 1987 was a Cold War-era meeting between United States president Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev that took place on December 8–10. Reagan and Gorbachev discussed regional conflicts in Afghanistan, Central America, and Southern Africa, arms control issues for chemical weapons as well as conventional weapons, the status of START negotiations, and human rights. A notable accomplishment of the Washington Summit was the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.