The Malta Summit consisted of a meeting between U.S. President George H. W. Bush and U.S.S.R. leader Mikhail Gorbachev , taking place between 2 – 3 December 1989 , just a few weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall , a meeting which contributed to the end of the Cold War partially as a result of the broader pro-democracy movement . It was their second meeting following a meeting that included then President Ronald Reagan , in New York in December 1988 . News reports of the time referred to the Malta Summit as the most important since 1945 , when British Prime Minister Winston Churchill , Soviet premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt agreed on a post-war plan for Europe at the Yalta Conference
Malta Summit
Malta Summit
Revolutions of 1989