The Vienna negotiations on conventional arms are fraught with complexities.

Mr. Shevardnadze said his country "advocates intensification of the Vienna negotiations" on conventional forces in Europe.

"We advocated an acceleration of the Vienna negotiations" Mr. Shevardnadze said.

Call for New Talks Many officials also called for a new round of disarmament talks to start as soon as the present Vienna negotiations produce a conventional arms reduction agreement later this year.

As the Vienna negotiations on reducing conventional arms in Europe began their summer break, the chief Soviet negotiator today criticized the Western proposals.

In session for nearly two decades, from October 1973 to February 1989, these earlier Vienna negotiations failed to yield an East-West conventional arms-control agreement.

Western officials regard such plans as containing little that is not already being discussed in other international talks, such as the 13-year-old Vienna negotiations on reducing conventional forces in Europe.

The proposal essentially abandoned the call for early negotiations and proposed that talks on short-range systems be linked to substantial progress in the Vienna negotiations on reducing conventional arms.

The Soviet leader also laid out proposals for the Vienna negotiations on reducing conventional arms.

But the paper argued, as Mr. Adamec did, that any withdrawal had to be in the context of the Vienna negotiations on reducing conventional arms in Europe.