An expert in Soviet affairs, Mr. Barry led the West in reaching a key military agreement in 1986 with the Moscow-led Warsaw Pact nations.
Robert L. Barry, an American diplomat who helped open the U.S. Consulate in Soviet-era Leningrad and was Washington’s chief negotiator in a breakthrough military agreement with Moscow just weeks before a Cold War summit in 1986, died on March 11 at his home in Newton, Mass. He was 89.Mr. Barry’s Foreign Service career brought him into the center of events in Europe during the final decades of the Cold War, including being part of U.S.
“Nothing helps so much as a date when you have to deliver your homework,” said the head of West Germany’s delegation, Klaus-Jürgen Citron.was announced a few days later. “We have been able to say ‘yes’ to each other,” a smiling Mr. Barry told journalists. “I hope it is an experience we will be able to repeat.”
Mr. Barry attended Dartmouth College on a Navy ROTC scholarship, graduating in 1956 with a degree in international relations focusing on the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc. He received a fellowship for further study at the University of Oxford and then spent three years in the Navy before joining the Foreign Service in 1962.
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