Shultz to Hold Moscow Talks on Feb. 22-23
Secretary of State George P. Shultz will hold talks in Moscow later this month on a prospective fourth summit between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the White House announced today.
Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, confirming an earlier report by the Soviet press agency Tass, said Shultz will meet Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze on Feb. 22 and 23.
“It will be a meeting to give preliminary consideration to a summit along with discussion of other bilateral and regional issues,” Fitzwater said.
At their Washington summit last year--the third meeting between them--Reagan and Gorbachev pledged to meet again in Moscow in the first half of 1988.
The two leaders also said in a joint statement that they hope to conclude a treaty that would cut U.S. and Soviet strategic nuclear arsenals by half.
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