Reagan to Meet Shevardnadze Sept. 27 in Preparation for November Summit

President Reagan will meet Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze next month at the White House, it was announced Monday.

White House Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes, who announced the meeting at Reagan’s vacation retreat in Santa Barbara, said the President and Shevardnadze will “review all areas of our relations” in preparation for Reagan’s scheduled meeting Nov. 19-20 in Geneva with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev.

Shevardnadze will visit Washington on Sept. 27 after addressing the opening session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York earlier that week. Before the Reagan-Shevardnadze meeting, the Soviet foreign minister will confer with Secretary of State George P. Shultz, probably in New York.

It will be Shevardnadze’s first trip to Washington since his appointment last July to succeed veteran diplomat Andrei A. Gromyko, who was elevated to the post of Soviet president.

Meanwhile, the U.S. government shrugged off a Soviet call for a new U.N. debate on ways of preventing the militarization of space. In a letter to U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, Shevardnadze proposed for inclusion in the agenda of the upcoming General Assembly session an item calling for “measures preventing an arms race in outer space.”

Speakes and State Department spokesman Charles A. Redman used virtually identical language in dismissing the Soviet initiative. If the Soviets want to talk about banning weapons from space, they said, the proper place to do so is in the Geneva arms control talks.

“If the Soviet Union has serious proposals to make, they should do it in the forum that both sides have established in Geneva,” Redman said.