Soviet Envoy Urges Superpower Bid to End U.N. Ideology Clashes

A Soviet diplomat called Friday for a joint U.S.-Soviet effort to “de-ideologize” the United Nations and end decades of East-West confrontation.

Ambassador Boris B. Pyadyshev hailed what he called a new and favorable atmosphere in the world body and attributed this to “substantial changes for the better” in superpower relations.

Pyadyshev, who is editor of International Affairs, a magazine published by the Soviet Foreign Ministry, told reporters that Moscow and Washington have entangled the United Nations in ideological quarrels and that they must now repair the damage.

He said the perestroika , or restructuring, that President Mikhail S. Gorbachev has undertaken has created a new foreign policy mechanism: For the first time, members of the Supreme Soviet, the country’s parliament, are attending a U.N. General Assembly.

The Supreme Soviet’s Committee for International Affairs, like the U.S. Congress, has begun to take an active role in international negotiations and in the work of the 131 Soviet embassies, he said.

As an illustration of the new attitudes taking hold in Moscow, Pyadyshev displayed a copy of the September issue of International Affairs, which contains an article dealing with the Soviet Union’s secret agreements with Nazi Germany in 1939--agreements that had not been publicly acknowledged in Moscow until recently.

Pyadyshev defended the secret agreements, as well as the Soviet occupation of the Baltic republics that followed, on grounds that the Western powers had refused to confront German dictator Adolf Hitler and had left Soviet leader Josef Stalin no alternative.

If the Baltic Soviet republics are now demanding freedom from Soviet rule, he said, it is equally clear that in 1939 they saw union with the Soviet Union as the “only real shield” against the German threat.

“Now the situation is somewhat different,” he said. But he warned that the delicate issue of national independence cannot be resolved “in one hour or one day.”

Meanwhile, the General Assembly completed a 155-item agenda for three weeks of debate scheduled to begin Monday. President Bush will speak Monday, and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze on Tuesday.