Gorbachev stresses that a solution needs to be found to deal with the problems of foreign debt, as well as Third World countries. Foreign policy decisions can no longer be made with the threat of the use of force. With nuclear weapons, force is a dangerous factor to use as a lever against other nations. Tied in with the above points is arms reduction. The arms race is a leech sucking the blood out of every country participating.
Nuclear weapons are expensive and are also used as a terror tactic with other countries.
Arms reduction would help relieve the strain on the economy and alleviate tension between nations. Buried in his speech are a few references to the environment. From what I have read about Gorbachev and by him, it seems that he is truly interested in the environment. This is not one of the points he really stressed, but it seems inportant to me. There are frequent references to the global problem of the environment, and that the world community must do something about it immediately.