U.S. IS HOPEFUL SUMMIT PLANS WILL GO AHEAD

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• Publication Date: March 9, 1986
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NEW YORK TIMES
~? ^GE 9 March 1986
U.S. Is Hopeful
Summit Plans
Will Go Ahead
By BERNARD GWERTZMAN
Special to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, March 8 - The
United States expressed guarded confi-
dence today that the cutback ordered in
the Soviet missions to the United Na-
tions would not damage relations with
Moscow or present new problems in ar-
ranging the next summit meeting.
A State Department official said the
Utu[ states a ect to act
cause of concern within the A mittis-
tration ongress that it was
oec mmg difficult to keep track of
potential spies. President Reagan,
after the spy cases last year, om-
mt a et
In Moscow, the Soviet Government
press agency Tass called the American
action an "unprecedented" and "hos-
tile" move that violated United States
commitments as the host country for
United Nations headquarters.
U.N. Studying the Legalities
At the United Nations, high-level offi-
cials said they were looking into the
legality of the United States order cut-
ting the personnel of the three Soviet
missions to the United Nations from 275
to 170 by April 1988.
In Washington, officials said a task
force had been working for several
months on the problem posed by the
large staffs of the Soviet Union, the
Ukraine and Byelorussia. High among
the factors was a concern that the Fed-
eral Bureau of Investigation could not
keep track of so many people from the
Soviet bloc.
The officials acknowledged that the
action could result in Soviet retaliation
or in delaying the next meeting be-
tween President Reagan and Mikhail
S Gorbachev, the Soviet leader. But
the officials said the United States was
eager to limit the impact.
We see no reason why this step
should impair U.S.-Soviet relations,"
Charles E. Redman, a State Depart-
ment spokesman, said.
The size of the U.N. missions is not
connected to U.S.-Soviet bilateral rea-
tions. We look forward to improving
our efforts to build on the results of last
November's Geneva summit. There is
no reason why this action should affect
the prospects for the next summit."
United Nations missions to a reason-
able size is consistent with the United
States Government's obligations under
the agreement by which the U.N. put
its headquarters in New York and
under international law. "
He said there was no legal provision
that "explicitly deals with the questio
of the size of the mission of U.N. mem-
bers. "
Timing Is Called Awkward
A State Department official con-
ceded that the timing of the cutback or-
der was awkward since it came during
,Torts to arrange the next summit
meeting.
The Soviet Union has yet to respond
to a United States proposal that the
next meeting be held in Washington in
June or July.
"No time is perfect," the official
said.
Officials expressed hope that the
American order would not affect the at-
mosphere in Washington when Anatoly
F. Dobrynin, who has joined the Soviet
leadership after serving here as Am-
bassador for 24 years, returns this
month to say goodbye and presumably
to convey messages about the future.
The United States has also been hop-
ing that Foreign Minister Eduard A.
Shevardnadze of the Soviet Union will
come here to prepare for the next sum-
mit meeting.
Soviet Consulate Will Open
Although the personnel of the Soviet
missions to the United Nations are to
be cut by nearly 40 percent in two
years, the Soviet Union will be permit-
ted to open a new New York mission
that is accredited to the United States,
State Department officials said.
The new mission is a consulate being
established under an accord providing
for a Soviet consulate in New York and
a United States consulate in Kiev. The
Soviet consulate in New York will oper-
ate out of the building on East 67th
Street that houses the three missions to
the United Nations.
Under arrangements that gave rise
to the United Nations after World War
II, the Soviet Union is represented not
only by a delegation from its central
government, but also by delegations
from two of its 15 constituent republics,
the Ukraine and Byelorussia. They
were admitted on the ground that they
had suffered particularly from the Ger-
man invasion of the Soviet Union dur-
ing the war.
The State Department said the
American staff for the Kiev consulate
has been chosen and work was proceed-
ing on a building in Kiev.
American officials said that they had
originally decided not to make a public
announcement of the cutbacks, which
were confirmed only after the action
began to be known at the United Na-
tions.
"Once we began briefin
the U
N
g
.
.
On the legal issue, Bruce Ammer- j about the move, we knew it would leak,
man, another State Department but we did not want to draw particular
spokesman, said: "Limiting the Soviet attention to it ourselves," an official
said. "If it had not leaked, we were pre-
pared not to have said a word. We were
decidedly not trying to embarrass Mos-
cow. "
Reduction Through Attrition i
He added that the Soviet Union had
been told that the cuts could be accom-
plished by attrition.
"This is not a case where we are
kicking out a lot of Russians, and they
are lining up at the airport waiting for a
plane," he said., "We gave them a
timetable by which certain cuts have to
be made, the first in October, and by
their regular turnover, they can meet
the new limits without particular hard-
ship."
He added that if the Russians refused
to meet the limit, the number of visas
issued would be restricted to the new
totals set by the United States.
Recently, the United States put addi-
tional travel rules into effect for Soviet-
bloc officials to make it easier for the
F.B.I. to keep track of them.
In the Soviet Union the Govern-
ment's Committee or fate ecurit .
e .stmt ar ee trac of the
movements of
me can rso e
fate partment o [Zia s sai tat,
in addition to opening the New York
and Kiev consulates, progress was
being made in other areas discussed at
the last summit meeting.
Pan American Airways and Aeroflot
will resume direct air service between
the two countries next month, and a
delegation from the United States In-
formation Agency is going to Moscow
next week to seek agreements on peo-
ple-to-people exchanges.
Soviet Sees U.S. Violation
By SERGE SCHMEMANN
Special to The New York Times
MOSCOW, March 8 - The Soviet
Government press agency Tass today
characterized the American order as
an "unprecedented" and "hostile"
move that violated the United States'
commitments as the host country for
United Nations headquarters.
Apparently alluding to Washington's
charges of espionage among staff
members of the Soviet missions, the
Government press agency said that the
action had been taken "under far-
fetched and groundless pretexts."
"It is obviously aimed at further un-
dermining the United Nations, Tass
said, adding, "A whole number of coun-
tries have been voicing quite justified
doubts about the expediency of having
the United Nations' headquarters in the
United States."
Alluding to previous United States
actions to curb the movements of per-
sonnel from Soviet-bloc nations and a
number of other countries, Tass said
the order was part of a series against
"socialist states and developing coun-
tries whose policies do not suit the
White House."
It recalled that Washington had al-
ready limited the movements of United
Nations employees from the Soviet
Union, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Iran,
Cuba and Libya to a 25-mile radius of
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