Malta Summit comprised a meeting between US President George H. W. Bush and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev , taking place on December 2 – 3 , 1989 , just a few weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall . It was their second meeting following a meeting that included Ronald Reagan , in New York in December 1988 . During the summit , Bush and Gorbachev would declare an end to the Cold War although whether it was truly such is a matter of debate . 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 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt agreed on a post-war plan for Europe at the Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference
Malta Summit