The World : Paris-Moscow Summits Set

France and the Soviet Union agreed to return to the practice of holding annual summits and scheduled meetings in the Soviet Union for Nov. 25-26 and in France in the first half of 1989 between President Francois Mitterrand and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev. The agreement was announced by Mitterrand’s spokesman after a 75-minute meeting in Paris between Mitterrand and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze. The yearly summits, held alternately in Moscow and Paris, were broken off in 1986 because of differences over human rights and arms control as well as the confused political situation in France during the last two years, when Mitterrand ruled in uneasy tandem with a conservative government.