The World - News from July 9, 1985
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Eduard A. Shevardnadze, in his first policy statement since replacing Andrei A. Gromyko last week as Soviet foreign minister, said he will concentrate on improving relations with the West. There are “real possibilities to curb the forces of imperialism, bring about a radical change in the course of developments and revive the process of detente,” Shevardnadze and Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Varkonyi said in a communique at the end of Varkonyi’s visit to Moscow.
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