Shevardnadze Called Home : Soviet Leaving N.Y. to Assist in Party Revamp

Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze cut short his participation in the U.N. General Assembly today to return to Moscow for a meeting devoted to reorganizing the Communist Party apparatus.

“There will be changes in the working of our political structure,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennady Gerasimov said. “In this sense, the plenum is very important.”

Shevardnadze planned to fly home tonight to attend the Communist Party Central Committee session. All members of the committee who are abroad, including a number of ambassadors, had been summoned, Gerasimov said.

The session was long planned but the specific date had not been set until now, Gerasimov told reporters.

‘Administrative Changes’

Shevardnadze was originally to remain until Oct. 3.

“He has to cut it short, unfortunately,” Gerasimov said. “The plenary will be devoted to reorganization of the party apparatus, including the Central Committee itself.”

The spokesman said the session would begin on Friday and would go on for a day or two. “It will bring some administrative changes,” Gerasimov said.

Asked if the purpose of the meeting was to take up recent ethnic unrest in Armenia, Gerasimov said, “It has nothing to do with this situation.”

Gerasimov said the aim was to make sure the party was concerned mainly with “strategic thinking and not to interfere, as it does now, in day-to-day affairs of the government.”

Scheduled Meetings

Before flying home, Shevardnadze was to meet with Secretary of State George P. Shultz and the foreign ministers of China, Britain and France.

The session, held annually during the special session of the U.N. General Assembly, had been scheduled for Friday.

It was moved up to accommodate Shevardnadze, although Shultz will meet with British Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe and Foreign Ministers Roland Dumas of France and Qian Qichen of China on Friday as well.

The Soviet foreign minister did not cancel a planned meeting with Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, the Democratic candidate for President, in a mid-town hotel.

Shultz intended to take up with Shevardnadze U.S. complaints that the Soviets and the Soviet-supported government in Afghanistan were conducting bombing raids on positions in Pakistan.

Raids Condemned

Shultz condemned the cross-border raids on Tuesday as a violation of Pakistani territory. They are designed to interrupt the flow of U.S. weapons through Pakistan to guerrillas in Afghanistan fighting the Kabul government.

While Shevardnadze scrambled his schedule, Shultz proceeded with a daylong series of meetings with the foreign ministers of West Germany, Israel, Turkey, Poland and other governments.

On Tuesday, in a brief news conference in a U.N. hallway, Shevardnadze said the Soviets had suspended the withdrawal of the Red Army from Afghanistan.

He said the Geneva accords signed April 14 provided for removal of the troops and assured Afghanistan’s territorial integrity. The Soviets claim that Pakistan was allowing the rebels to launch raids from Pakistan.