Roberta Metsola Marks Malta’s Role In End To Cold War

Speaking at Georgetown University in Washington whilst addressing students, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola marked Malta’s role in ending the Cold War.

‘“In 1988, just outside this building on the Healy Lawn, President Reagan gave a speech on the importance of freedom as ‘the first principle of society’ and he reached out to the ‘millions who still live under the yoke of communism’, said Metsola.

‘A year later, that yoke crumbled and millions in Europe were set free. I remember watching, on a small television in my grandmother’s house, the Berlin Wall come crashing down.’

‘Then, just a month later, in what was the worst storm in a generation, President Bush met President Gorbachev in Malta – my country – to officially end the Cold War.’

‘A peace that so many had for decades thought impossible was found in the middle of the Mediterranean, on an island 17 miles long and 9 miles wide. Remember that next time you think or you are told that you are too small to matter.’

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