THE PRESIDENT IN EUROPE : Western Summit Was Ineffective, Tass Says
The Soviet news agency Tass said the seven-nation summit that ended in Bonn on Saturday had proved ineffective and helpless in the face of the West’s economic problems.
“Nobody really expected the Bonn meeting to provide a fundamental solution to the acute commercial, economic and monetary-financial problems of the capitalist world,” Tass said in a commentary.
“But few people would predict that the meeting could prove so ineffective and helpless on these issues. . . . There is every indication that the most acute trade and economic difficulties tearing the ‘Club of Seven’ apart will only sharpen, thus marring political relations between them.”
Tass said President Reagan had tried to give the summit a political tone, “but the United States failed to make any visible political gains.”
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