M.S. Gorbachev: "I flew to Washington on May 30, 1990, having good reason to expect that we will be able to maintain a constructive atmosphere of dialogue and agree on many things. The agenda was exceptionally rich: a package of disarmament issues, including agreeing on the main provisions of a future START treaty; the European process, and above all the external aspects of German unification; prospects for a trade agreement; situation in the zone of regional conflicts. In total, 24 documents were signed then. The main thing was, of course, not in the number of documents, but in their significance for creating a stable cooperation infrastructure." On May 31, 1990, M.S. Gorbachev met with representatives of the American intelligentsia. On June 2, the Izvestia newspaper wrote: "Speaking about relations between the USSR and the USA, the President noted:" We are going from confrontation to rivalry, from rivalry to partnership. "