Summit Planning Session Due to Begin May 14

WASHINGTON — Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze will meet with Secretary of State George P. Shultz in Washington on May 14-16 to make arrangements for the proposed U.S.-Soviet summit meeting later in the year, Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin said Friday.

Dobrynin made the announcement to reporters after a final meeting with Shultz at the State Department before returning to Moscow to assume new duties in the Secretariat of the Communist Party Central Committee.

On Tuesday, Shultz had said Shevardnadze would visit Washington in mid-May but he was unable to give the precise date.

Sticking Points

At the Geneva summit meeting last year, President Reagan invited Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to the United States in 1986 and accepted an invitation to go to the Soviet Union in 1987. But that arrangement came into question because of strains in the U.S.-Soviet relationship. Among recent sticking points is the U.S. decision to reduce the size of the Soviet missions to the United Nations by 40% over a two-year period to try to cut down on Soviet spying.

The Soviets have also accused the United States of dangerous provocations against Libya in the Gulf of Sidra.

In his press conference Wednesday, Reagan said that a June summit meeting with Gorbachev was unlikely because of the pressure of time, and he said he would prefer July. If that was impossible, he said, a time after the U.S. elections Nov. 4 would have to be chosen. June is the month originally favored by the Administration.

Byrd Request

On Capitol Hill, Senate Minority Leader Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) asked Reagan and Gorbachev in separate letters to include the issue of international terrorism on their summit agenda.

Byrd told reporters later that decisions to share intelligence, and to work in concert to foil terrorist attacks or to capture and jail their perpetrators, would be in the interests of both nations.

In his letter to Gorbachev, Byrd said: “The recent upsurge of terrorist incidents and threats indicates, I believe, that better planning and more decisive actions must be taken on a cooperative basis by our two nations.”

Byrd told Reagan, “I know that you have attempted to develop closer working relations in this area with our European allies, and it occurs to me that it might be possible to broaden your efforts to include the Soviets in some ways.”

Still Wants Summit

Byrd delivered his letter to the Soviet leader to Dobrynin at a luncheon in the Capitol in honor of the veteran diplomat. Byrd said Dobrynin made clear that Gorbachev remains interested in a summit meeting.

Ending 24 years as Soviet ambassador to the United States, Dobrynin and his wife, Irina, left Andrews Air Force Base on Friday evening aboard a Soviet government plane. Seeing him off were Deputy Secretary of State John C. Whitehead and about 60 Soviet Embassy staff members. Dobrynin shook hands with Whitehead and hugged and kissed several staff members.

Dobrynin had already turned over his protocol duties as dean of the Washington diplomatic corps to Swedish ambassador Wilhelm Wachmeister. The post goes automatically to the envoy who has served longest in Washington.

Although no formal announcement has been made, Dobrynin is expected to be replaced by Yuli A. Vorontsov, his former deputy at the Soviet Embassy in Washington, and currently ambassador in Paris.