Dr. Martin D. Brown attends a conference in Washington D.C.

01/11/2007

Dr. Martin D. Brown attends a conference in Washington D.C.

Over the inter-semester break Dr Martin D. Brown attended a conference in Washington DC, organised by the State Department, and entitled 'U.S.-Soviet Relations in the Era of Détente, 1969–1976'.

The conference was convened to mark the forthcoming release of Soviet-American Relations: The Détente Years, 1969–1972, a joint documentary publication undertaken by the Office of the Historian of the U.S. Department of State and the Historical-Records Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Proceedings were opened by Secretary of State Dr Condoleezza Rice. Further contributions were made by Dr Henry Kissinger and Dr. James Schlesinger. Also in attendance were a number of Russian Academicians, including Ambassador Konstantin Provalov.

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