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 [[File:Ford signing accord with Brehznev, November 24, 1974.jpg|thumb|alt=Two men in suits are seated, each signing a document in front of them. Six men, one in a military uniform, stand behind them.|Ford meets with Soviet leader [[Leonid Brezhnev]] to sign a joint [[communiqué]] on the SALT treaty during the [[Vladivostok Summit Meeting on Arms Control|Vladivostok Summit]], November 1974.]]
-Ford continued the détente policy with both the [[Soviet Union]] and China, easing the tensions of the Cold War. Still in place from the Nixon administration was the [[Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty]] (SALT).<ref name="Challenges1970">{{cite book |last=Mieczkowski |first=Yanek |title=Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s |publisher=[[University Press of Kentucky]]|location=Lexington, Kentucky|year=2005|isbn=978-0-8131-2349-3 |pages=283–284, 290–294}}</ref> The thawing relationship brought about by [[1972 Nixon visit to China|Nixon's visit to China]] was reinforced by Ford's own visit in December 1975.<ref name="chinatrip">{{cite web |url=http://www.ford.utexas.edu/avproj/china.htm |title=Trip To China |website=Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library |publisher=University of Texas |access-date=December 31, 2006 |archive-date=September 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924014527/http://www.ford.utexas.edu/avproj/china.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Administration entered into the Helsinki Accords<ref name="Helsinki Accords">{{cite web |url=http://www.usa-presidents.info/speeches/helsinki.html |title=President Gerald R. Ford's Address in Helsinki Before the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe |publisher=USA-presidents.info |access-date=April 4, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071010085836/http://www.usa-presidents.info/speeches/helsinki.html |archive-date=October 10, 2007 }}</ref> with the Soviet Union in 1975, creating the framework of the [[Helsinki Watch]], an independent non-governmental organization created to monitor compliance which later evolved into [[Human Rights Watch]].<ref name="hrw">{{cite web |url=https://www.hrw.org/about/whoweare.html |title=About Human Rights Watch |publisher=Human Rights Watch |access-date=December 31, 2006 |archive-date=December 27, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061227201438/https://www.hrw.org/about/whoweare.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
+Ford continued the détente policy with both the Soviet Union and China, easing the tensions of the Cold War. Still in place from the Nixon administration was the [[Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty]] (SALT).<ref name="Challenges1970">{{cite book |last=Mieczkowski |first=Yanek |title=Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s |publisher=[[University Press of Kentucky]]|location=Lexington, Kentucky|year=2005|isbn=978-0-8131-2349-3 |pages=283–284, 290–294}}</ref> The thawing relationship brought about by [[1972 Nixon visit to China|Nixon's visit to China]] was reinforced by Ford's own visit in December 1975.<ref name="chinatrip">{{cite web |url=http://www.ford.utexas.edu/avproj/china.htm |title=Trip To China |website=Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library |publisher=University of Texas |access-date=December 31, 2006 |archive-date=September 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924014527/http://www.ford.utexas.edu/avproj/china.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Administration entered into the Helsinki Accords<ref name="Helsinki Accords">{{cite web |url=http://www.usa-presidents.info/speeches/helsinki.html |title=President Gerald R. Ford's Address in Helsinki Before the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe |publisher=USA-presidents.info |access-date=April 4, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071010085836/http://www.usa-presidents.info/speeches/helsinki.html |archive-date=October 10, 2007 }}</ref> with the Soviet Union in 1975, creating the framework of the [[Helsinki Watch]], an independent non-governmental organization created to monitor compliance which later evolved into [[Human Rights Watch]].<ref name="hrw">{{cite web |url=https://www.hrw.org/about/whoweare.html |title=About Human Rights Watch |publisher=Human Rights Watch |access-date=December 31, 2006 |archive-date=December 27, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061227201438/https://www.hrw.org/about/whoweare.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
 Ford attended the inaugural meeting of the [[Group of Seven]] (G7) industrialized nations (initially the G5) in 1975 and secured membership for Canada. Ford supported international solutions to issues. "We live in an interdependent world and, therefore, must work together to resolve common economic problems," he said in a 1974 speech.<ref name="canadaG7">{{cite news |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/president-ford-got-canada-into-g7-1.628291 |title=President Ford got Canada into G7 |date=December 27, 2006 |publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Company |access-date=December 31, 2006 |archive-date=January 3, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070103222303/http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/12/27/ford-canada.html |url-status=live }}</ref>