NATO Summit Plans Reported

President Reagan is planning a brief trip to Brussels in early March to consult with leaders of other North Atlantic Treaty Organization nations in preparation for his likely trip two months later to Moscow, White House officials said Thursday.

One official said that the White House is not ready to announce the trip but that planning has already begun.

Another official, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, said: “We’ve been considering a NATO summit meeting, and we have talked to NATO leaders and some of the allies about that, including Great Britain, and there are tentative plans for the President to attend such a meeting if it is established, but it has not been decided at this point.”

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had initiated the call for a NATO meeting preceding the anticipated visit by Reagan to Moscow, where he would meet with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev.