The World - News from Feb. 26, 1989
Soviet Ambassador Valery D. Nikolaenko said Moscow will reassess its arms shipments to Nicaragua’s leftist Sandinista government because it wants to help end regional conflicts. Central America’s troubles “cannot be solved militarily, only through peaceful means, through negotiation,” Nikolaenko told a news conference in Managua, adding that the Kremlin plans “a more thorough examination” of future weapons shipments. He would not reveal how much military aid the Soviet Union currently provides Nicaragua, but he said it exceeded $300 million in 1988. He also praised the region’s latest peace plan, signed by the five Central American presidents in El Salvador on Feb. 14.
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