The World - News from Oct. 3, 1985
The Chinese and Soviet foreign ministers have agreed to swap visits, the first such exchange since the split between the two Communist nations in the early 1960s, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Leonid F. Ilyichev said as he arrived in Peking for the latest in a series of talks on normalizing relations. A date for the foreign ministers’ talks is to be set later. Talks aimed at reducing tensions were held at irregular intervals until Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in 1979, then were suspended for three years. Trade and non-political ties between Moscow and Peking have grown in the last two years.
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