Shultz Gets No Summit Date in Gromyko Talks : Vienna Talks Concluded; No Date for Summit

Secretary of State George P. Shultz, heading for home after talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko, said today that the two superpowers did not set a time or place for a U.S.-Soviet summit meeting.

As yet, Shultz told Austrian television, “we have not been able to settle on when or where that meeting will take place.”

He said both sides obviously are interested in an exchange of views between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, but “we just have nothing to add to what is already known.”

There was no indication that the subject of a summit even came up during their six-hour session at the Soviet Embassy on Tuesday.

Reagan has invited Gorbachev to Washington, but the Soviets apparently are more interested in holding the meeting in New York in September when world leaders are attending the opening of the U.N. General Assembly.

Before leaving, Shultz had a 10-minute unscheduled discussion with Gromyko, accompanied only by interpreters. They left the session smiling and walked together down the stairs from the Belvedere Palace, where they attended ceremonies marking the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Austrian State Treaty.

Shultz and Gromyko both delivered speeches at Belvedere calling for East-West cooperation to halt the arms race.

Shultz recalled that it took nearly 10 years to negotiate the Austrian independence treaty between the Western allies and the Soviet Union and that critics had accused the negotiators of stalling.

“Yet in the end their patience was rewarded. . . . We hope to see (this) repeated in our negotiations with the Soviet Union here in Vienna and Geneva,” Shultz said.

“The Soviet Union will do everything . . . to determine and ensure that the arms race is stopped and that the arms race does not spill into space,” Gromyko said.

Tuesday’s session, Page 5.