Mikhail GorbachevMr President and Mrs Gorbachev and Ministers from the Soviet Union, Ministers from the United Kingdom, Industrialists, Friends, Members of the Press, Ladies and Gentlemen.
We are going this morning to sign three Agreements between the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom, at least Foreign Secretaries are going to sign those Agreements.
The first one is concerned with investment into the Soviet Union and protection and rules for that investment. We are great believers of investing in one another's countries and our industrialists are very anxious to be able to invest in the Soviet Union.
The second one is new rules for visas to make it easier and smoother and less waiting time to get them. That should make travelling, both for businessmen and for civilians, very much easier. [end p1]
And the third one, and of special human interest, concerns the gift of a school to the people of Armenia who suffered so much from the earthquake and we have with us some industrialists who have contributed to that school.
As you probably know, five thousand children were killed in school during that earthquake and of course thousands and thousands were left without a school. And when we asked the people of Armenia what they would like as a gift they asked us especially for a new school.
The model of it is here. It is a school for four hundred children aged between five and sixteen. Because it is a single storey school you can see far more of the roofs than of the classrooms, but what is beneath the roofs will duly be explained to you by the Kenneth BakerSecretary of State for Education when we have done the signing.
Now if we could have the first agreement signed please.