Shultz and Gromyko Will Meet in Vienna on May 14

Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko will meet in Vienna on May 14 “to review matters of common interest,” the State Department announced today.

Spokesman Edward Djerejian refused to say what specific matters the men will discuss, but officials who did not wish to be identified said the agenda will include prospects for a U.S.-Soviet summit and easing regional disputes between the superpowers.

Shultz and Gromyko are due to be in the Austrian capital to participate in ceremonies marking the 30th anniversary of the signing of the treaty ending the four-power, post-World War II occupation of the country and the return of Austrian sovereignty.

The officials, who declined to be identified, said arms control will be one--but not the only--issue on their agenda.

He said the others include U.S. concerns about human rights in the Soviet Union, economic and other relations, and regional issues.

These include the Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan and Soviet support of revolutionary movements in Latin America.

Shultz and Gromyko last met in Geneva in January, setting the stage for the negotiations that opened in the Swiss city a month ago on nuclear weapons controls. Those talks have apparently made virtually no headway.

Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the new Soviet leader, last Sunday proposed a number of arms control measures and said he is willing to have a summit meeting with Reagan.

Administration officials have dismissed those proposals, which include a unilateral Soviet suspension of new mobile missile deployments in Europe, as a ploy and nothing new. But they say they are encouraged by Gorbachev’s views on a summit.