Going off of what was said earlier in October 1969, the White House, along with the Soviet Union, confirmed plans to begin the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (or SALT). The White House chose the Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Gerald Smith, to lead the US delegations during the talks and President Nixon also stated that the first conference was to be held outside of the US in Europe. However when the first conference would take place had yet to be mentioned by either the US or the USSR. This was an important step in the fight to sustain world peace after the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia in August 1969, putting all peace negotiations on hold, The announcement of SALT was seen as a possibility of finally achieving peace with the USSR.
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