The Moscow Summit of 1998 was a summit meeting happened on September 1–2, 1998, between

President of the United States The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president directs the Federal government of the United States#Executive branch, executive branch of the Federal government of t ...

Bill Clinton William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician and lawyer who was the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, ...

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Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician and statesman who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1961 to ...

. The Moscow summit meeting addressed a number of important nonproliferation and arms control issues where the presidents of both countries discussed common security concerns and agreed to give each other's countries continuous information on launches of ballistic missiles in order to increase the safety of the population and reduce the possibility of nuclear war by mistake.

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