In a television address, US President Reagan speaks to the Soviet people, and CPSU leader Gorbachev to the American people. Both leaders affirm their desire for disarmament.
10 January
1986
Erich Honecker receives delegates from the US House of Representatives and holds talks with them on the global political situation and relations between the two countries.
15 January
1986
Soviet party leader Gorbachev proposes a three-step plan to abolish all atomic weapons by 2000, meeting with mostly positive reactions from the West.
