The World - News from July 31, 1989
The Soviet Union and China have agreed to hold talks in November to discuss reductions in their armed forces along the Chinese-Soviet border, the Soviet news agency Tass reported. Tass said Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze and Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen agreed at a Paris meeting that the talks will be held in Moscow. The talks will be the first formal negotiations between the two sides devoted to reducing troops. Moscow now has an estimated 600,000 troops along the border, while Beijing has about 1 million. Tass said the two ministers also noted “with satisfaction” progress made in Soviet-Chinese cooperation since the normalization of relations at the Beijing summit in May.
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