8 April 2013
Mikhail Gorbachev’s statement on the death of Margaret Thatcher
The news of Margaret Thatcher’s death is very sad news indeed. I was aware of her grave illness; the last time we met was several years ago. I offer my sincere condolences to her family and loved ones. Mrs. Thatcher was a political leader whose words carried great weight. Our first meeting in 1984 was the start of a relationship that, though at times complicated and not always smooth, was marked with seriousness and mutual responsibility. We gradually developed a personal rapport which became increasingly friendly over the years. Eventually, we reached the degree of mutual understanding that contributed to a change in the atmosphere between the Soviet Union and the West and helped to end the Cold War.
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The XXI century will be a сentury either of total all-embracing crisis or of moral and spiritual healing that will reinvigorate humankind. It is my conviction that all of us - all reasonable political leaders, all spiritual and ideological movements, all faiths - must help in this transition to a triumph of humanism and justice, in making the XXI century a century of a new human renaissance.
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