Malta Conference

(noun)

The Malta Summit comprised a meeting between U.S. President George H. W. Bush and U.S.S.R. leader Mikhail Gorbachev, taking place between December 2-3 1989, just a few weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Related Terms

Examples of Malta Conference in the following topics:

  • The "New World Order"

    • There appear to have been three distinct periods in which it was progressively redefined, first by the Soviets, and later by the United States before the Malta Conference, and again after Bush's speech of September 11, 1990.
    • The Malta Conference collected these various expectations, and they were fleshed out in more detail by the press.
    • The Malta Conference on December 2–3, 1989 reinvigorated discussion of the new world order.

  • The George H.W. Bush Administration

    • In 1989, just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, President Bush met with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in a conference on the Mediterranean island of Malta.
    • The administration had been under intense pressure to meet with the Soviets, but not all of Bush's advisers initially thought the Malta summit to be a step in the right direction.

  • The European Union (EU)

    • In 2004, the EU saw its biggest enlargement to date when Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia joined its ranks.
    • The EU operates solely within those competencies conferred on it by the treaties and according to the principle of subsidiary (which dictates that action by the EU should only be taken where an objective cannot be sufficiently achieved by a member state alone).

  • The End of the Cold War

    • Gorbachev and Reagan held four summit conferences between 1985 and 1988: the first in Geneva, Switzerland; the second in Reykjavík, Iceland; the third in Washington, D.C.; and the fourth in Moscow.
    • In November 1989, the Berlin Wall was torn down, the Cold War was officially declared over at the Malta Summit on December 3, 1989, and—two years later—the Soviet Union collapsed.

  • Sponsoring Conferences, Hackathons, and other Developer Meetings

  • Meeting In Person (Conferences, Hackfests, Code-a-Thons, Code Sprints, Retreats)

  • "The General Act of the Conference"

  • Diplomatic Goals at the Paris Peace Conference

  • Conference Committee

    • In order to conclude its business, a majority of both House and Senate delegations to the conference must indicate their approval by signing the conference report.
    • The conference committee produces a conference report melding the work of the House and Senate into a final version of the bill.
    • A conference report proposes legislative language as an amendment to the bill and also includes a joint explanatory statement of the conference committee.
    • In the first house to consider the conference, a Member may move to recommit the bill to the conference committee.
    • But once the first house has passed the conference report, the conference committee is dissolved and the second house to act can no longer recommit the bill to conference.

  • The European Theater

    • Italy began operations in the European region of the Mediterranean by initiating a siege of Malta in June 1940.
    • On February 4, US, British, and Soviet leaders met for the Yalta Conference.