Governors Island Summit

The Governors Island Summit was a summit meeting between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev. It was held on December 7, 1988. U.S. Vice President and President-elect George H. W. Bush was also in attendance.^[1][2]

Governors Island Summit
Bush, Reagan and Gorbachev
Host country	United States
Date	December 7, 1988
Cities	New York City
Venues	Governors Island
Participants	Mikhail Gorbachev Ronald Reagan
Follows	Moscow Summit (1988)
Precedes	Malta Summit

Gorbachev cut his trip to the United States short as soon as he was informed of the earthquake that had struck the Soviet republic of Armenia earlier that day.^[3]

See also

• List of Soviet Union–United States summits (1943 to 1991)