OSLO, October 12. /TASS/. The participants of the international conference dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Soviet-US summit in Reykjavik, have emphasized the importance of the Russian-US dialogue, Vladimir Orlov, a member of the UN Secretary-General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, told TASS on Wednesday.
Politicians and experts from Europe, the US and Russia, as well as the diplomats who had taken part in the historical talks between Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and US President Ronald Reagan on the strategic arms reduction, were invited to the conference.
"The US colleagues mentioned the importance and the possibility to maintain a dialogue on the missile defense," Orlov said. "We spoke about the danger of some conventional weapons turning into strategic ones so they must be taken into account in this regard as well as the nuclear weapons."
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