U.S. eager for summit
NZPA-Reuter Washington The United States said yesterday that it was ready to meet the Soviet Union to prepare for a second summit meeting between the President, Mr Ronald Reagan, and the Soviet leader, Mr Mikhail Gorbachev, but officials said they were taken aback by a Soviet assertion to have initiated such a meeting. A State Department official said Washington had been urging an advance meeting between the American Secretary of
State, Mr George Shultz, and the Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr Eduard Shevardnadze, since January but that the Soviet Union had been dragging its feet. “They are portraying it as their initiative. That is incredibly cheeky,” said the official in response to a statement yesterday by a Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister, Vladimir Petrovsky. Mr Petrovsky told a Moscow news conference, “We have proposed to the United States to set in
motion the preparatory mechanisms for such a meeting between our two Ministers.” A White House spokesman, Larry Speakes, repeated yesterday that the United States was ready for the Foreign Ministers’ meeting, but that no date had been set. Messrs Shultz and Shevardnadze were to have met in Washington in May to prepare for the second summit but Moscow postponed the talks in protest against U.S. air strikes in Libya.
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