NATION : Baker, Shevardnadze to Meet
Secretary of State James Baker is to meet Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in Vienna on March 7 for a get-acquainted session, the State Department said today.
“There will be a preliminary get-acquainted meeting in Vienna on March 7. That will be followed later on by an in-depth meeting . . . outside of Vienna, at another time to be determined,” State Department spokesman Charles Redman said. Baker will be in Vienna for the opening of new multination talks on reducing conventional armed forces in Europe. On Saturday he will begin a whirlwind tour of 15 NATO countries, returning to Washington next Friday.
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