U.S.-Soviet Talks on Nuclear Tests to Resume in Geneva
U.S.-Soviet talks on reducing nuclear testing will resume Monday, officials on both sides said Friday.
The effort to break a long deadlock on the issue was agreed upon Oct. 23 when Secretary of State George P. Shultz met in Moscow with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
Six sessions were held after the 1985 Geneva summit between President Reagan and Gorbachev, but the two sides failed to narrow basic differences.
Officials said the session will last about two weeks. Delegates will decide whether to continue irregular sessions, as were held previously, or to establish a permanent negotiating schedule, as is the case in the talks covering space and nuclear arms.
The Soviet delegation is scheduled to arrive in Geneva today, again headed by Andranik M. Petrosyants, chairman of the State Committee for the Utilization of Atomic Energy.
Chief U.S. delegate Robert B. Barker, assistant secretary of defense for atomic energy, is scheduled to arrive Sunday.
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