Discussion on NATO and Germany Unification

As for missile defense, you often meet with—

This is what Mikhail Gorbachev and I discussed.

Mikhail Sergeyevich, at what level were you given

these promises?

Were they official promises or merely private, nonbinding

conversations?

No, that was at official meetings connected with

what lay ahead

in the course of the process

and the formation of our approach to German reunification.

So the conversation took place,

if I’m not mistaken, on February ninth

with

the highly esteemed Baker, and I put the question to Baker,

that we proceed from this, from that, from another thing, from a third.

Well. And Baker

immediately solemnly declared to me, I wrote about this in my

book.

And have you kept the documents on this matter?

I have. I’m now quoting from the

transcript: “There will be no

expansion of NATO’s jurisdiction

or military presence by a single inch

in an easterly direction."

And there are many other things there, but those are details.

And this is the most important fundamental statement.

Mikhail Sergeyevich, as for missile defense, you often meet—