Chapter 35 Economic Summit Forum
During the few days when Seryozha was in Sverdlovsk, an invitation was sent to Seryozha to the upcoming World Economic Summit Forum in New York. ??One??Reading WWW··COM This is a high-level economic conference, and the invited guests are mainly famous economists, business leaders, and some financial officials. Originally, this kind of activity had nothing to do with Soviet officials, but as a series of concepts such as asset securitization and debt securitization gradually became new hot spots in the financial market, as the inventor of subprime mortgage products, Sergei Sha was also fortunate to was invited.
According to the organizational procedures of the Soviet Union, the visit of deputy ministerial officials needs to apply to the Supreme Soviet. Therefore, after receiving the invitation, the Assistant Minister's Office of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation immediately applied to the Supreme Soviet. This incident was inadvertently reported to General Secretary Chernenko by the secretary of General Secretary Chernenko when he was reporting to work. It was an opportunity, so under the instruction of the general secretary, this matter was hidden from Foreign Minister Gromyko, and only Secretary Gorbachev was notified.
Chernenko has a position on this matter. Since Andropov took office, the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union has been very tense. Official exchanges between the two countries have been interrupted for a long time, and this time the U.S. economic conference that Sergei Sosa applied for is a very high-level meeting. The U.S. business department, trade department, finance minister, and the chairman of the Federal Reserve will all attend . General Secretary Chernenko thought this was a rare opportunity to contact the US government. W?W?W?··COM In view of Gromyko's consistent hawkish views. Eagerly looking forward to improving the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union, Chernenko, who shifted his focus to economic construction, decided to go to Gorbachev to discuss this matter without telling Gromyko. After all, Serezha was his man.
The last time Sergei was in the limelight when negotiating with the British government, Chernenko and other Kremlin officials had already recognized his ability. The chances of the economic meeting worked wonders again. Therefore, he and Gorbachev reached a consensus in private, allowing Sergey to attend the meeting in an official capacity rather than a private capacity, forcing American officials to sit down and negotiate with Sergey, and try to make the two countries as good as possible now. The tense atmosphere eased down.
After Sergey and Yeltsin returned to Moscow, Sergey asked Korolev, who had previously been in charge of the Workers’ New City project, to give Yeltsin a detailed introduction to the actual situation of the Workers’ New City, and then Sergey asked Yakovlev Husband and Yeltsin met at their home. As long as Yakovlev knew about this matter, he would neither refute Liaosha's face, nor conceal Yeltsin's intentions from Gorbachev. With Yakovlev as an intermediary knowing this before Gorbachev, Gorbachev would not suspect that they colluded without telling the leader.
On the second day of his return, Seryozha was called by Gorbachev to the Kremlin to report. Under the watchful eyes of General Secretary Chernenko, Gorbachev gave Seryosha the task of contacting US economic officials by taking the opportunity of participating in the international economic conference. Seryozha was extremely surprised by this. He did not think that the objective conditions for the US-Soviet détente were now met. But since General Secretary Chernenko has come forward, it means that this matter is not what Secretary Gorbachev meant.
"Contact me directly if you have anything to do, and be careful not to let the comrades in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs know about it!" Gorbachev carefully told Seryozha. Xie Liaosha couldn't explain the difficulty of this matter in front of the general secretary, but as long as he agreed, he must undertake this task. This matter is simply not allowed to refuse Sergey Sha, unless he resigned from the position of Assistant Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation.
So Seryozha nodded very simply, and this time Gorbachev gave him another problem.
Sergey and Gorbachev left together. The two left the Kremlin in the same car. On the way, Gorbachev sincerely apologized to Sergey. It was just a tactful statement to Gorbachev that he was not sure that this matter could be done.
"Seryozha, things are not as you imagined. There must be a result. As long as the Americans can change their attitude towards us, contacting us is a victory! Even if it can't be done, at least let Gromy The people in Ke think you have done it! Only in this way, comrades will think that we have mastered the communication channel between the United States and the Soviet Union!" Gorbachev whispered to Sergei to teach him the opportunity.
Sergey immediately understood what Secretary Gorbachev meant. This matter was proposed by General Secretary Chernenko. General Secretary Chernenko hoped that Sergey would allow new communication channels between the two countries, and Secretary Gorbachev hoped that comrades in the party thought that Seryozha had opened up new channels of communication between the two countries. These are fundamentally two different concepts. The former is almost an impossible task, while the latter is that life depends entirely on acting skills. After comprehending this meaning, Seryozha immediately put his heart in his stomach.
Seryozha did not return to the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation until the afternoon, and he asked Nastya to arrange the fastest flight to the United States for her. This time, Seryozha decided to go to the meeting alone, and did not intend to bring any entourage from the country with him. The organizers of the meeting had already arranged a place for him to stay, but Sergei never expected that it would be the Plaza Hotel in New York. Seryozha knew nothing about the past history of the Plaza Hotel, but at least he knew that the "Plaza Agreement" was signed at the Plaza Hotel! However, when Sergei signed the contract, I don't have any memory. According to the request of the organizing committee, Xie Liaosha needs to speak at this economic summit forum. He handed over this speech to the experts of Glencore, and Xie Liaosha put all his thoughts into it. On the issue of how to break the ice of trade for the Soviet Union.
Objectively speaking, this is indeed a rare contact opportunity. The current global economic situation is sluggish. Except for Japan, all countries are enduring the pain of economic slowdown or even recession. The life of the United States is also difficult. On the one hand, the economies of the Soviet Union and the United States are declining, and on the other hand, the two sides are engaged in an arms race. In fact, if the current economic growth rate is set thirty years later, the governments of European and American countries will even feel very satisfied, but not now. Everyone has not recovered from the high growth rate of industrialization and has not yet become accustomed to it.
After a long flight, Seryozha landed at the airport in New York exhausted. Seryozha secretly decided in his heart that he must develop the tu-144d into a real commercial supersonic airliner, so as to satisfy his future visits. need.