U.S. Envoy Addresses Soviet People
U.S. Ambassador Arthur A. Hartman, delivering a televised Independence Day message to the Soviet people, said Friday the United States remains committed to improving bilateral relations and a summit meeting between superpower leaders.
He also had praise for the Statue of Liberty as a symbol of the American belief in “free movement of peoples, free expression and the chance to achieve a better life.”
Hartman delivered his Independence Day message at the end of the nightly television news program “Vremya (Time)”--one of the most widely watched programs in the Soviet Union. A small American flag served as a backdrop to the speech.
Ambassadors are usually invited to deliver a brief message at the end of the program in recognition of their national days.
Hartman last addressed the Soviet people on television on July 4, 1985, one day after the announcement of the first summit meeting between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, which was held in Geneva last November.
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