Moscow Bars Separate Euromissile Pact

The Soviet Union said Thursday that it will insist on an arms control package deal with the United States and will not sign a separate accord on medium-range weapons in Europe.

A statement by chief Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennady I. Gerasimov appeared to end confusion over Moscow’s intentions on future negotiating strategy.

He also made it clear that another Soviet-American summit is not even being discussed and is not likely to be held in the near future.

“It is too early for another meeting,” he said. “The dust hasn’t settled yet. The disputes were so heated in Reykjavik that dates were almost forgotten and the two leaders left each other without raising this question.”

But Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze may confer when they are both in Vienna at a meeting on the 1975 Helsinki agreements, he said.

Gerasimov, speaking at a press briefing, said the Soviet Union is willing to bargain separately with the United States about medium-range missiles but would refuse to sign any agreement that did not also include strategic arms and space weapons.

‘As a Complex’

“We are now approaching this subject as a whole--that is, as a complex,” the spokesman said after some Soviet officials had indicated earlier this week that separate agreements might be possible.

Even if both superpowers reached an accord on abolition of the so-called Euromissiles, he said, “we cannot divide this package.” His comments confirmed that the Kremlin wants to link tight restrictions on President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative, commonly known as “Star Wars,” to big reductions in long-range and medium-range missiles.

In the past, Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev has favored separate negotiations on Euromissiles and a ban on ending nuclear weapons tests.

At the break-up of the Reykjavik summit last Sunday, Gorbachev did not spell out clearly whether the Soviet proposals could be dealt with in separate agreements or whether he would insist on a package deal.

50% Reductions

These proposals include eliminating medium-range missiles from Europe, limiting those weapons in Asia, and the slashing of strategic weapons by 50%.

Viktor P. Karpov, the chief Soviet negotiator at the Geneva arms control talks, indicated Tuesday in London that an accord on medium-range missiles might be achieved independently of other types of weapons.

But Gorbachev on Wednesday told Argentine President Raul Alfonsin that only a total arms control package would be acceptable to Moscow in view of what he termed the major concessions the Soviet side made in the Reykjavik talks.

In Bonn on Thursday, senior U.S. arms negotiator Max M. Kampelman said the Soviets were sending mixed signals and should “get their act together” on arms control.

The offers put forward at Reykjavik, Gerasimov said, will be put on the table in Geneva as the official Soviet position, he said.

But each part of the package raises complicated questions, and experts on both sides at Geneva needed to do more work on refining them, he added.

Gerasimov said the Soviet Union will continue its unilateral moratorium on nuclear tests until Jan. 1 despite the failure to reach agreement on this question at the meeting in Iceland.

“Of course, we reserve the right to decide what we will do afterward,” he said.

Meantime, leading Soviet political commentator Alexander Bovin said that the Kremlin wants the Reykjavik dialogue to continue.

“However, so far we cannot believe very much in the Americans and cannot help considering their ‘Star Wars’ plans as a means of achieving military superiority,” Bovin wrote in the government newspaper Izvestia.