Warsaw Pact Nations Set Goals for Next U.S.-Soviet Summit

The Warsaw Pact countries said Thursday that the next U.S.-Soviet summit meeting should “at least” achieve a bilateral suspension of nuclear weapons tests and an agreement to eliminate medium-range missiles in Europe.

Some diplomatic observers said the joint statement of the Soviet-led alliance appeared to be an attempt to set conditions under which Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev would agree to meet President Reagan a second time.

At their first meeting, last November in Geneva, the two leaders agreed to meet again this year in Washington with no conditions. No date was set, but initial plans for a June meeting have reportedly slipped at least to September. A fall session is unacceptable to the United States because of election campaigning.

Some U.S. officials have expressed skepticism that the Soviets will agree to any such meeting this year.

The joint statement by the seven-nation Communist alliance was issued at the end of a two-day meeting of foreign ministers in Warsaw. Besides the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact members are Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania.

‘Concrete Agreements’

“It was stressed,” the seven-page statement said in part, “that the next Soviet-American summit should focus on matters related to arriving at concrete agreements on the discontinuance of the arms race. . . . This meeting might achieve agreements at least on the discontinuing of nuclear weapons tests and on liquidation of American and Soviet intermediate-range missiles in Europe.”

On the American side, this category includes the 572 cruise and Pershing 2 missiles still being deployed in Western Europe, each with a single warhead, and the more than 260 triple-warhead SS-20 missiles the Soviet Union has targeted on Western Europe since 1978.

The United States and its allies have resisted Soviet efforts to confine limitations on medium-range missiles to the European continent, on the ground that this would allow the Soviets a free hand to continue deploying SS-20s in its Far Eastern territories, within range of China, Japan, South Korea and the Philippines.

Soviet Offers Hailed

Most of the Warsaw Pact statement was devoted to praising a long list of standing Soviet arms control proposals, including a pledge to disband the Warsaw Pact if the West agrees to dissolve the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

The statement repeated a Soviet promise not to carry out nuclear tests after the expiration on March 31 of its unilateral moratorium “until the first explosion conducted by the U.S.A.”

Western intelligence officials have said the Soviets have advanced preparations for underground testing to a point that would allow them to resume within two to three weeks if they decide to do so.