From Fulton to Malta: How the Cold War Began and Ended. The Gorbachev Foundation announces the launch of its new publication presenting papers of an international conference hosted by the Gorbachev Foundation and the World Political Forum on March 1, 2006

The speakers at the international conference From Fulton to Malta: How the Cold War Began and Ended,  hosted by the Gorbachev Foundation and the World Political Forum on March 1, 2006, included prominent political leaders of the 20^th century former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev, former German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher and former Prime Minister of West Germany, currently  Co-Chairman of the Petersburg Dialogue Russian-German Public Forum, Lothar de Maiziere, as well as leading experts in international affairs from Russia, the United States, Great Britain and France.

In his introductory remarks, Mikhail Gorbachev emphasized the need for reflection on one of the most dramatic and contradictory eras in the history of the 20^th century: “We all used to be part of one or another political and ideological system – and we still are trying to leave that system behind. I feel it both here, in Russia, and in the West. Stereotypes are a disastrous thing. And myths are even more so. Therefore, historical facts will certainly add to our knowledge of real processes and events in which we participated.”