Vladivostok Summit Meeting on Arms Control | |
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Host country | Soviet Union |
Date | November 23–24, 1974 |
Venue(s) | Okeanskaya Sanatorium |
Cities | Vladivostok |
Participants | Leonid Brezhnev Gerald Ford |
Follows | Moscow Summit (1974) |
Precedes | Vienna Summit (1979) |
The Vladivostok Summit Meeting on Arms Control was a two-day summit held on November 23 and 24, 1974, in Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia, for the purpose of extending arms control provisions between the Soviet Union and the United States.[1][2] After a series of talks between American President Gerald Ford and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Washington and American Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's visit to Moscow, Ford traveled to Vladivostok to meet with Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev directly.[2] The two heads of state agreed to terms that would limit both nations an "equal aggregate number" of various weapons, including strategic nuclear delivery vehicles (SNDVs), intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) fitted with multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs).[3]