Leaders to Wrap Up Summit With a Joint Ceremony : Reagan, Gorbachev Will Tell World Today the Results of Their Efforts

After negotiations that lasted through their final private dinner Wednesday night, President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev decided over coffee to end the first U.S.-Soviet summit in six years with a joint ceremony this morning to report the results of their labors to the world.

Yet despite indications that the final agreement would include a call for future summits and an exchange of invitations for state visits, the “good atmosphere” proclaimed by both sides apparently was not translated into immediate breakthroughs on the major problems troubling the two superpowers.

Throughout the two days of meetings, both sides suggested repeatedly that Reagan and Gorbachev were getting along exceptionally well. At a concluding reception Wednesday night, Reagan cheerfully waved aside questions from reporters, saying, “The news is so good, we’re going to hold it until tomorrow.”

Exchange of Visits Seen

As to concrete achievements, however, barring a last-minute breakthrough, they appeared likely to be limited to peripheral issues--among them, a call for additional superpower summits and an exchange of good-will visits between Reagan and Gorbachev. Neither has ever visited the other’s country.

White House sources said late Wednesday that Gorbachev will visit the United States next year and that Reagan will go to the Soviet Union in 1987. The Soviet leader, asked about the invitation, acknowledged that it had been extended but would not confirm that he had accepted. Asked directly if he would go to the United States next year, he said only, “We’ll see.”

The reception was followed by the dinner for 12 that the President and Mrs. Reagan gave at their summit residence, the Maison de Saussure, overlooking Lake Geneva.

Session to Be Brief

At this morning’s ceremony, which White House spokesman Larry Speakes said would be brief, the two leaders were also expected to sign a cultural agreement that would, among other things, lead to the people-to-people exchanges that Reagan called for in a nationwide address last week before leaving for Geneva.

In a late-night briefing for reporters, Speakes suggested that negotiations between the U.S. and Soviet teams were still continuing in an effort to reach agreement in other areas.

Gorbachev announced plans to hold a news conference in Geneva today--less than an hour after his public appearance with Reagan--to present his view of the talks. Reagan announced no change in his original schedule, which calls for him to fly to Brussels this afternoon to brief the Western allies, then continue to Washington to address a joint session of Congress this evening.

“It will be close to a 24-hour day before his head touches the pillow,” Speakes said of the President, who has moved through the rigors of the summit with a briskness that belies his 74 years.

The decision to hold the joint ceremony here this morning was agreed upon in the library of the Soviet Mission, with Reagan and Gorbachev shaking hands across a couch while their wives and top aides looked on.

“The President’s frame of mind is very good,” Speakes said after the ceremony was announced. “He will sleep well tonight.”

Although Gorbachev had insisted that progress on arms control should be a paramount goal, Soviet spokesmen here said they would consider the summit a success regardless of whether any substantive arms accord was reached. In their press briefings, they made it clear that they agreed with statements by some American officials that the summit had already helped improve relations between the superpowers.

Four Problem Areas

The Americans had planned to talk about four problem areas: arms control, regional conflicts, human rights and bilateral issues. They had expected no major breakthroughs, but had hoped to get a commitment from the Soviets for a second summit and a statement on arms control that would spur arms negotiators in Geneva.

In the weeks preceding the summit, Administration officials sought to lower expectations that there would be dramatic results. But with more than 3,000 journalists gathering in Geneva and both sides enthusiastic about the apparently good chemistry between Reagan and Gorbachev, expectations were inevitably raised that something substantive would be produced.

The two leaders met alone with only interpreters present for four hours and 51 minutes during the two-day summit, which is longer than they spent in the plenary sessions with their advisers.

Asked about the extraordinary sessions, Speakes said, “I can only interpret that as (meaning that) the two men communicate well with each other. They outlined their views very effectively to each other. The two obviously feel comfortable with each other in discussing the issues.”

Immediately upon arriving at the Soviet Mission on Wednesday morning, Reagan made it clear that he wanted to continue his unique brand of personal diplomacy, asking Gorbachev if there would be an opportunity for them to meet again privately. Gorbachev said, “Yes,” and the two leaders deviated once more from a schedule that was to have included no substantive private sessions.

Entering a small room whose walls were covered with green fabric, Reagan seated himself on a couch while Gorbachev took a small chair covered in gold-colored cloth. After allowing photographers and reporters to observe the scene briefly--an interlude that Reagan used to tell Gorbachev about his special diet for avoiding jet lag--the two leaders talked privately, with only two interpreters present, for more than an hour, from 10:08 a.m. until 11:17 a.m.

They held their fourth and final formal meeting of the summit Wednesday afternoon and completed the sessions having spent nine hours in each other’s company.

Reagan told reporters who were covering his arrival at the Soviet Mission that he was encouraged about the summit up to that point. However, when asked if the discussions had become heated on the issue of human rights, he declared, “We’re not going to comment on anything.”

Gorbachev, who has been much more responsive to reporters’ questions, interjected, “We had a very lively discussion of everything. You may be sure that the discussion is lively.”

Their talks, the Soviet leader said, had been “frank, businesslike and responsible.” Gorbachev reportedly had pounded the table during a session with Secretary of State George P. Shultz in Moscow several weeks ago but, in answer to a question here Wednesday, he said there would be no table-pounding in his sessions with the President.

“I think this is not going to happen,” he said. “This is not going to happen today, or tomorrow or in the future.”

It was at this point that Gorbachev was asked by a reporter whether he would like to visit the United States. “We have begun also discussing this question,” the Kremlin leader replied, and Reagan declared that “of course” he would like Gorbachev to visit.

In answer to another question, Gorbachev said they had been having “a responsible discussion” based on the fact that the meeting was “going on in a very careful way, while looking at all the problems that are of concern to both the Soviet people and the American people--the people of other countries.”

Reagan, usually quick to banter and drop one-liners, was serious throughout most of his brief encounters with the press during the summit. But Gorbachev frequently quipped when questioned by reporters.

Americans attending the plenary session that followed the private session were Shultz, national security adviser Robert C. McFarlane, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Arthur A. Hartman, senior Soviet affairs special assistant Jack F. Matlock Jr. of the National Security Council, and Rozanne L. Ridgway, assistant secretary of state for European affairs.

The Soviet delegation included Anatoly F. Dobrynin, Soviet ambassador to the United States, and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze. Decorating the Soviet side of the table was a copy of Gorbachev’s recent book, “A Time for Peace.”