CUBAN CHRONOLOGY

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Cuban Chronology
1983
A Reference Aid
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ALA 84-10024
April 1984
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This publication is a chronological listing of major international and domestic
events affecting Cuba during the period from 1 January to 31 December 1983.
The events are arranged alphabetically by country. In addition, two general
subject categories are included-the Nonaligned Movement and the Palestine
Liberation Movement. The events included in this reference aid were selected for
their individual significance; the publication is not intended to be a complete
collection of every major Cuban event during this period.
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Key to Abbreviations
AALAPSO Afro-Asian-Latin American People's Solidarity Organization
ABC American Broadcasting Company
AFP French Press Agency
ANA Yemen News Agency
ANAP National Association of Small Farmers
ANCI National Association of the Blind
ANGOP Angola's Official News Agency
ANPP National Assembly of Peoples Government
AP Associated Press
ARDE Anti-Sandinista Democratic Revolutionary Alliance
CEMA Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
COPWE Commission for Organizing the Party of the Working People of Ethiopia
CPCZ Czechoslovakia Central Committee
CPSL Central Committee of Czechoslovakia
CPSU Communist Party of the Soviet Union Organizations
CTC Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unions
DPRK Democratic People's Republic of Korea
ECLA Economic Commission for Latin America
FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation
FRG Federal Republic of Germany
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GDR German Democratic Republic
GOSPLAN USSR State Planning Committee
ICAP Cuban Institute of Friendship With the Peoples
ICRT Cuban Institute of Radio and Television
ILO United Nations International Labor Organization
KPRP Khmer Peoples Revolutionary Party
MPLA Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola
MRPR Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party
NAM Nonaligned Movement
NSC National Security Council
PCC Communist Party of Cuba
PDRY Peoples Democratic Republic of Yemen
PLO Palestine Liberation Organization
PRK People's Republic of Kampuchea
PZPR Polish Union Workers' Party
SELA Latin American Economic System
SEMPI National Council of the Society for Patriotic-Military Education
SFRY Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
SWAPO South-West African People's Organization
UK United Kingdom
UN United Nations
UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
UNITA Union for the Total Independence of Angola
UPI United Press International
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US United States
WFTU Palestinian News Agency
WFTU World Free Trade Union
WPA World Psychiatric Association
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Contents
Preface
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Key to Abbreviations
Afghanistan
Albania
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Algeria
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Angola
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Argentina
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Austria
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Bahamas, The
12
Barbados
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Benin
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Bolivia
15
Brazil
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Bulgaria
17
Burundi
20
Canada
21
Cape Verde
22
Caribbean Islands
23
Chile
25
China (PRC)
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27
Congo
30
Costa Rica
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Cuba Internal
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Cyprus
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Dominica
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Dominican Republic
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Egypt
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El Salvador
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Equatorial Guinea
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Ethiopia
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Germany, East
Germany, West
Guyana
Hungary
Italy
Mongolia
Mozambique
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Nonaligned Movement
Palestine Liberation Organization
Portugal
Seychelles
South Africa
Soviet Union
Spain
Syria
United Kingdom
Upper Volta
Uruguay
Western Sahara
Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen)
Yemen, People's Democratic Republic of (South Yemen)
Yugoslavia
Zambia
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Cuban Chronology
January 1983-December 1983
Afghanistan
February 17 Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Pelegrin Torras is received in Kabul by
Shah Mohammad Dost, Afghanistan's Minister of Foreign Affairs to
discuss the upcoming 7th Nonaligned Meeting.
April 25 Member of the Communist Party Central Committee Secretariat Antonio
Perez Herrero arrives in Kabul to participate in the celebrations for the
fifth anniversary of the April Revolution.
April 26 The fifth anniversary of the April revolution in Afghanistan is celebrated
in Havana at an important ceremony presided over by Jesus Montane.
April 29 Antonio Perez Herrero delivers a message from Fidel Castro to Secretary
General of Afghanistan's People's Democratic Party Babrak Karmal.
May 26 Abdul Samad Azhar, new Afghan Ambassador to Cuba, presents his
credentials to Carlos Rafael Rodriguez.
July 29 Afghan party delegation head Nur Ahmad Nur presents a message from
Babrak Karmal, President of the Revolutionary Council to Fidel Castro;
they exchange views on topics of interest.
August 24 The ratification of a cultural agreement between Cuba and Afghanistan is
signed in Havana by Manuel Penado, Cuban Ambassador to Afghanistan,
and his counterpart Abdol Samad Azhar.
September 23 Afghanistan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Shah Mohammad Dost is
greeted at Jose Marti Airport by Foreign Minister Malmierca.
Minister of Public Health Sergio del Valle discusses the current state of
health services in Cuba with Afghanistan's Minister of Foreign Affairs
Shad Mohammad Dost.
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September 27 According to two signed communiques in Havana, the Cuban, Bulgarian,
and Afghan Governments reiterate their support of the Sandinista revolu-
tion "in the face of US aggression."
December 11 An agreement of mutual cooperation between the DRA Union of Journal-
ists and the journalists union of Cuba for 1983-85 is signed in Kabul.
December 13 Fidel Castro meets with Mohammad Bargalai, member of the Political
Bureau and Secretariat of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
Central Committee.
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Albania
October 26 Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade Jose de la Fuente and his Albanian
counterpart Marko Xega sign a trade protocol for 1984 in Triana.
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Algeria .
January 5 President of the National Assembly Flavio Bravo arrives in Algiers and is
met by his counterpart Rabah Bitat.
January 10 National Assembly President Flavio Bravo discusses the international
situation and the upcoming seventh meeting of the Nonaligned Movement
with Algerian President Chadli Bendjedid.
January 11 Flavio Bravo states that his trip to Algeria served to strengthen relations
between the two nation's parliaments, government, and people. He departs
for Kuwait.
January 26 Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane and Lazhari Cheriet, member
of the National Liberation Front of Algeria, discuss the international
situation during meetings in Algeria.
January 31 Jesus Montane meets with Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Taleb
Ibrahimi and Mohammed Salem ould Salek, member of the Polisario
Front's Politburo in Algeria.
Jesus Montane discusses bilateral relations and the international situation
with Algerian leaders Rabah Bitat and Mohamed Cherif Messaadia
during meetings in Algeria.
February 7
February 10
February 17
Jesus Montane ends his visit to Algeria. A joint communique is issued
condemning US aggression, especially in Latin America and the Caribbe-
an, and stressing peace in the Middle East.
Algerian Foreign Minister Taleb Ibrahimi arrives in Cuba. Cooperation
talks open between the Algerian delegation, Isidoro Malmierca, Vice
Foreign Ministers Oscar Oramas, and Lazaro Mora.
Fidel Castro discusses international problems, bilateral interests, and the
forthcoming Nonaligned Movement meeting in New Delhi with Algerian
Foreign Minister Ahmed Taleb Ibrahimi.
Vice President of the National Assembly Jorge Lezcano meets with Yasir
Arafat in Algeria to exchange views.
Jorge Lezcano, Vice President of Cuba's National Assembly is in Algiers
to attend the Palestinian National Council Meeting.
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May 19 Isidoro Malmierca arrives in Algeria and discusses the international
situation and bilateral relations with his counterpart Ahmed Taleb
Ibrahimi.
"Ocean Merchant," a 4,000-ton Greek-owned freighter carrying Cuban
cement to Algeria, is detained in San Juan for unauthorized entry into the
US port, according to US Coast Guard officials.
July 23 The Cuban Council of State appoints Claudio Ramos Borrego ambassador
to Algeria.
July 28 Algerian President Chadli Bandjedid and Cuban Ambassador to Algeria
Raul Barzaga discuss bilateral relations and the international situation.
Barzaga ends his diplomatic tour.
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Angola
At the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Juan Almeida
says Cuba rejects the US proposal linking the withdrawal of Cuban troops
from Angola with Namibian Independence.
January 25-31 Minister of Construction Abroad Levi Farah visits Angola and discusses
construction with an Angolan delegation headed by Manuel Mangueira,
Minister of Construction.
March 2 Cuba and Angola si n a t h 1 d
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c mca an scientific cooperative agreement in
the field of trade during a meeting in Havana.
March 14 AFP Paris reports that UNITA forces captured Cuban Lieutenant Adolfo
N Esteves during an operation in the Huambo region on 12 March.
March 30 A Cuban delegation from the State Committee for Finance led by
Wilfredo Marredo, the director for finance of the enterprises sector is on a
30 day visit to Luanda.
April 4
April 8
April 12
May 11
May 13
May 20
Lisbon, AFP reports that the Angolan guerrilla movement UNITA
claimed to have killed 164 government troops and 34 Cubans during five
attacks that took place on 2 April.
Prensa Latina and Angola Press (ANGOP) News Agencies sign a new
news exchange agreement in Luanda to expand and develop the existing
ties between the two institutions.
Angola and Cuba sign a new agreement on educational cooperation in
Angola for the undertaking of analytical studies on primary education level
of specialists from the two countries.
Cuban Ambassador Francia Mestre ends his 3-year period of diplomatic
service in Angola. He describes the relations between Angola and Cuba as
excellent and historic.
Angolan Ambassador to Cuba Joao Mawette Baptista and Jesus Montane
discuss the international political situation and review cooperation between
the MPLA-Labor Party and the PCC.
Cuba and Angola sign an agreement in Luanda to reinforce bilateral
cooperation in the forestry and agricultural sectors.
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July 25
August 5
August 19
August 26
September 8
September 15
September 22
October 3
October 7
October 8
The Angolan rebel movement UNITA says its forces killed 29 government
troops and seven Cubans in an attack on the town of Cuima on 5 June.
The Council of State appoints Rodolfo Fuentes Ferro, alternate member of
the Communist Party and deputy to the National Assembly of the People's
Government, ambassador to Angola.
In Luanda, the Cuban Ambassador to Angola says the US and South
Africa are trying to deceive the world by linking the independence of
Namibia to the presence of Cuban troops in Angola.
Education Minister Jose Ramon Fernandez bids farewell to a group of
internationalists teachers who will leave shortly for Angola to teach fifth
and sixth grade classes.
The Ministry of Education reports that 4,335 Cuban teachers are provid-
ing internationalist assistance in 20 countries: including 2,112 in Nicara-
gua and 1,861 in Angola.
In a welcoming ceremony for UN Secretary General de Cuellar, Angolan
President dos Santos proposes four conditions before Angola and Cuba
would consider withdrawing Cuban forces from Angola.
During a meeting in Havana, PCC member Jorge Risquet and Angolan
Minister of External Relations Paulo Jorge condemn the US stand on
independence for Namibia.
487 Cuban students are training to teach in Angola at the Ernesto Che
Guevara Internationalist Teachers Detachment located in San Antonio de
los Banos.
Ricardo Alarcon tells the London press that Cuba is prepared to send more
troops if Angola requests them.
During a visit to Namibe, Cuban Ambassador to Angola Rodolfo Fuentes
Ferro says the bonds of Cuban-Angolan friendship will never be broken.
Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas and his Angolan counterpart
Ismael Martins sign a trade protocol in Luanda.
Cuban Attorney General Dr. Idalberto Guevara Quintana arrives in
Luanda on an 8-day visit.
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October 21 South African permanent representative at the UN, von Schirnding, tells
the Security Council that there can be no independence for South-West
Africa until Cuban forces are withdrawn from Angola.
October 27 A joint communique is issued in the Congo rejecting all attempts to link
Namibia's independence to the presence of Cuban troops in Angola during
Ramiro Valdes' visit.
October 30
November 4
Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos expresses "militant solidarity
with the people of Cuba" over the US-led invasion of Grenada, according
to the Angolan News Agency.
A seminar on international cooperation, in Luanda, is chaired by Cuban
specialists from the Economic Cooperation Committee; 25 officials from
international exchange departments receive lessons.
November 28 The Cuban contingent of internationalist forestry workers cooperating in
Angola holds a meeting headed by Jorge Risquet and Vice Minister of
Agriculture Arnaldo Milian Castro.
December 5 First Secretary of the Union of Young Communists Carlos Lage arrives in
Angola.
December 28 South African state-run radio accuses the Soviet Union and Cuba of being
behind a push by 1,000 Namibian nationalist guerrillas into Namibia from
Angola.
December 30 Cuban Ambassador to Zambia Heriberto Feraudy reaffirms Havana's
support for liberation movements in southern Africa and says it will keep
troops in Angola and Ethiopia as long as required.
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February 10
March 13
March 31
April 1
Argentina
Argentine Ambassador to the UN Carlos Muniz presents the Grand Cross
of the Order of Merit of May to Cuba's UN representative Raul Roa
Kouri.
The Communist Party of Argentina demands that US Ambassador to
Argentina Harry Schlaudeman be declared persona non grata for accusing
Cuba. of interfering in Argentina's domestic affairs.
Cuban Ambassador in Geneva Luis Sola Vila calls for a need to develop a
system of trade without discrimination during a meeting of the Group of 77
in Buenos Aires.
Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas, stopping in Peru enroute to Buenos
Aires, tells Peruvian agriculture officials Cuba will analyze the possibility
of supplying sugar to Peru.
Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas arrives in Buenos Aires to
participate in the Fifth Ministerial Meeting of the Group of 77.
April 6 Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas blasts the US at the Group of 77
Meeting in Buenos Aires and reaffirms support of Argentina's sovereignty
over the Malvinas Islands.
July 15
September 30
December 8
December 12
Isidoro Malmierca and Argentine Ambassador to Cuba Luis Raul Claraso
de la Vega sign an agreement extending a bilateral cooperation agreement
signed in August 1973 that was to expire in June 1984.
Orlando Hernandez Guillen, Chief of the Cuban Foreign Trade Ministry's
Department for South America, and Raul Fernandez, Director for the
National Bank arrive in Argentina.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez leaves for Argentina to attend the presidential
inauguration of Raul Alfonsin.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez conveys to Argentine President Raul Alfonsin
Fidel Castro's "happiness over the victory of democracy in Argentina"
which, he stated, will consolidate bilateral relations.
December 15 The Argentine Foreign Ministry announces that Carlos Rafael Rodriguez
told President Alfonsin that Cuba plans to increase its purchases of
Argentine grain, oilseeds, and edible oil in 1984.
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Australia
May 3 Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas attends a UN Sugar Conference in
Geneva. He discusses the crisis affecting the world's sugar producers with
his Brazilian and Australian counterparts.
October 31 Melbourne overseas service reports that about 1,500 supporters of the
opposition coalition in. Vanuatu have marched through the main street in
Port Vila announcing Vanuatu's links with Cuba.
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May 3
July 15
Austria
Minister President of the State Committee for Economic Cooperation
Hector Rodriguez Llompart conveys greetings from Fidel Castro to
Austria's Chancellor Bruno Kreisky.
During his visit to Austria, Hector Rodriguez Llompart meets with
Austrian officials Edauranan Kane and Ferdninand Lacina.
Cuba withdraws from the World Psychiatric Association according to an
announcement at a session of the WPA General Assembly that ended in
Vienna.
December 28 Granma announces that the Council of State has designated Gustavo
Mazorra Hernandez as the Cuban Ambassador to Austria.
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Bahamas, The
February 15 According to the Nonaligned Movement's headquarters in the UN,
Colombia, Bahamas, and Barbados will join the Nonaligned. Honduras
will not be admitted and Venezuela withdraws its application.
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January 25
January 26
February 15
October 6
October 7
October 27
Foreign Minister Malmierca discusses the current situation in Latin
America, the Nonaligned Movement, and bilateral relations with Barba-
dos's External Affairs Minister Louis Tull.
Culture Minister Armando Hart and Louis Tull hold talks in Havana.
Foreign Minister Malmierca and Tull sign a cultural agreement in the
fields of science, education, and culture.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez discusses Central America, the Caribbean, and
the upcoming summit meeting of the Nonaligned Movement with Barbadi-
an Foreign Minister Tull before Tull's departure from Havana.
According to the Nonaligned Movement's headquarters in the UN,
Colombia, Bahamas, and Barbados will join the Nonaligned. Honduras
will not be admitted and Venezuela withdraws its application.
An article in Granma blames the CIA for the "Barbados Crime," which
took place seven years ago when a Cubana Airlines plane exploded in flight
after taking off from Bridgetown airport.
In a ceremony for the victims of the plane crash in Barbados in 1976, Ri-
cardo Alarcon links that incident to the downing of the Korean plane on 7
September 1983-blaming the US.
Havana accepts offers from Spain and Colombia to airlift the approximate-
ly 600 Cubans on Grenada back to Cuba or to Barbados.
November 10 Havana press announces that 24 Cubans died in Grenada, and that the ex-
humation of bodies of those killed in combat began on 9 November.
November 15 After the funeral service in Holguin, the bodies of the 13 Grenadian
combatants are returned to Grenada via Barbados; Raul Castro accompa-
nies them to the airport.
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June 4
October 17
The Council of State appoints Carlos Castillo Calanas as Cuba's ambassa-
dor to Benin.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives the credentials of Souva Frederick-Affo,
Benin's ambassador to Cuba.
Romain Vilon Guezo, President of the Standing Committee of the
Revolutionary National Assembly of the People's Republic of Benin begins
an official visit to Cuba.
October 18 Vice President of the National Assembly Jorge Lezcano receives Romain
Vilon Guezo, President of the Standing Committee of the Revolutionary
National Assembly of Benin.
October 25 President of the Standing Committee of the Revolutionary National
Assembly of Benin Romain Vilon Guezo delivers a message from President
Krekou to Fidel Castro.
Romain Vilon Guezo holds a press conference in Havana before departing
for Benin; he says that relations between the two countries will rest on a
solid and indestructible base.
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January 11 Foreign Ministers Malmierca and Mario Velarde Dorado of Bolivia sign a
declaration in Managua to reestablish diplomatic relations; ambassadors
will be appointed later.
April 4
Jorge Lezcano, vice president of Cuba's National Assembly of the People's
Government, arrives in Bolivia to deliver a shipment of medicine and food
for the nearly 50,000 victims of recent floods.
April 9 Fidel Castro addresses a message to Bolivian President Hernan Siles on the
31st Anniversary of the 1952 Bolivian Revolution.
September 27 The Bolivian Senate reports that the Bolivian military has confirmed
claims by Humberto Hillman Aguilera that he received guerrilla training
in Cuba on orders from the Interior Ministry.
November 11 A delegation of 30 Bolivian senators and deputies arrives in Havana and is
greeted by Jorge Lezcano, member of the Central Committee and vice
president of the National Assembly.
President of the National Assembly Flavio Bravo explains the characteris-
tics and operation of the National Assembly to a delegation of Bolivian
senators and deputies.
November 16 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives a delegation of Bolivian senators and
deputies to discuss the international situation.
November 17 Jesus Montane receives a delegation of senators and deputies of the
Congress of Bolivia.
November 18 President of the National Assembly Flavio Bravo attends a reception for
the delegation of Bolivian congressmen at the conclusion of their visit.
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Brazil
May 3 Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas attends a UN Sugar Conference yin
Geneva. He discusses the crisis affecting the world's sugar producers with
his Brazilian and Australian counterparts.
December 1 Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane discusses matters related to the
social structure'of Cuba and the tasks and achievements of the Cuban
revolution with a delegation of Brazilian congressmen.
December 3 In talks with 15 members of the Brazilian Congress visiting Cuba, Fidel
Castro discusses Cuba's progress in public health and education and
Brazilian economic and social development.
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January 26
February 9
February 15-17
March 15
March 17
April 7
April 28
Bulgaria
Bulgaria's National Assembly Chairman Stanko Todorov arrives in Ha-
vana and discusses topics of mutual interest with Jorge Lezcano, Vice
President of the National Assembly of Cuba.
Bulgaria's National Assembly Chairman Stanko Todorov tours Pinar del
Rio, Isle of Youth, and Holguin Province. He meets with Fidel Castro and
Isidoro Malmierca before departing on 28 January.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez discusses the economic situation and the develop-
ment plans that have been implemented in a meeting with Bulgarian
Communist Party member Stanko Todorov.
Stanko Todorov, member of the Politburo of the Bulgarian Communist
Party is greeted by Flavio Bravo at Jose Marti Airport during a stopover
following a trip to Ecuador and Colombia.
Bulgaria's Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade Marin Marinov arrives in
Havana to begin trade talks. A trade agreement is signed for 1983 that will
increase trade by 18 percent more than in 1982.
Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bulgaria Lukanov arrives
in Havana; the 16th meeting of Intergovernmental Commission begins and
a cooperation protocol is signed on 17 March.
Andrey Lukanov and his delegation visit the heroes of 26 July Farming
Equipment Factory in Holguin.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Andrey Lukanov discuss strengthening
economic and political relations and prospects for development of coopera-
tion in the Third World countries.
Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Oscar Oramas exchanges views with
his Bulgarian counterparts Ivan Ganev and Mariya Zakharieva during
meetings in Sofia.
Central Committee member Antonio Esquivel Yedra discusses cooperation
in the field of electronic computers and bilateral cooperation with Toncho
Chakurov, Bulgarian Minister of Machine Building.
Cuba and Bulgaria sign a work agreement in Havana for 1983-85 in
accordance with the plan of cultural, educational, and scientific coopera-
tion existing between the two governments.
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May 10 Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas welcomes Bulgarian leader Todor Zhiv-
kov to the Cuban Pavillion in the Plovdiv Spring Fair, the largest
exhibition ever presented by Cuba abroad.
May 17 Minister of Domestic Trade Manuel Sosa Vila and Bulgaria's Minister of
Internal Trade Georgi Karamanev sign a cooperation protocol on domestic
trade in Sofia.
May 18 Antonio Perez Herrero and Jose Ramirez Cruz receive the commemorative
medal, "1300th Anniversary of the Founding of the Bulgarian State," from
the Bulgarian Council of State.
May 26 Cuba and Bulgaria sign an agreement in Sofia to expand bilateral
scientific-technical cooperation for 1983-84.
May 28-June 8 Jose Felipe Carneado, head of the Central Committee Science, Culture,
and Education Department heads a working group to Bulgaria; they visit
the Plovdiv and Gabrovo Okrugs.
July 8 Minister of Machine-Building and Metallurgy Marcos Lage and Minister
of Mechanical Engineering and Electronics of Bulgaria Toncho Chakurov
sign a bilateral cooperation protocol in Sofia.
July 28 Bulgarian officials Ognyan Doynov and Vasil Tsanov discuss agricultural
cooperation with Cuban Communist Party member Julian Rizo Alvarez in
Bulgaria.
August 2 Communist Party member Julian Rizo Alvarez visits the Ministry of
Agriculture in Bucharest. Rizo arrived in Bucharest from Bulgaria on a
tour that began in the Soviet Union.
September 24 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez discusses bilateral questions and topical interna-
tional issues with Bulgarian Foreign Minister Petur Mladenov.
Foreign Minister Isidoro Malmierca discusses bilateral matters with
Bulgarian Foreign Minister Petur Mladenov.
September 26 Bulgarian Foreign Minister Petur Mladenov visits Cuba; he discusses
economic, scientific, technological, educational, and cultural developments
with Fidel Castro.
September 27 According to two signed communiques in Havana, the Cuban, Bulgarian,
and Afghan Governments reiterate their support of the Sandinista revolu-
tion "in the face of US aggression."
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November 4
November 21
November 25
Vice Minister of Foreign Trade Jose de la Fuente and his Bulgarian
counterpart Konstantin Kozmov sign contracts for R43 million in Plovdiv
as part of the 1984 trade negotiations.
Chief of the FAR Central Political Directorate Division General Sixto
Batista is received in Sofia by President Tudor Zhivkov; they discuss
matters of mutual interest.
The 24th meeting of the socialist countries of CEMA's Permanent
Commission for Electrical and Postal Communications begins in Havana.
Bulgarian Transportation Minister Vasil Tsanov arrives.
A cooperation agreement is signed between the State Radio and Television
Committee of Bulgaria and the ICRT for the. years 1983-84 during a
ceremony in Havana.
December 16 Juan Almeida receives the Gold Medal, first grade, of the Bulgarian
Ministry of Construction and Architecture in a ceremony in Havana.
December 19 Julio Camacho Aguilera, member.of the party Politburo receives the
1,300th Bulgarian State Founding Anniversary Medal during a ceremony
in Havana.
December 30 Raul Castro tours the east-central province of Camaguey, bringing
greetings from Fidel and praising the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, and East
Germany for their part in Cuban development.
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September 2 Joaquin Benavides and Burundi's Public Health Minister Fidele Bizimana
attend the third session of the intergovernmental commission for economic,
scientific, and technical cooperation in Havana.
September 5 Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas receives Burundi's Public
Health Minister Fidele Bizimana; they discuss bilateral commercial
relations.
September 6 Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas and Burundi's Public Health Minister
sign a commercial agreement during the closing ceremony of the third
intergovernmental meeting.
Joaquin Benavides and Fidele Bizimana sign a public health, agriculture,
education, and sugar industry agreement for 1983-85 in Havana.
December 8 Politburo alternate member Montane receives the Burundi Women's
Union delegation headed by Eufraye Cadenque, member of the party
Political Bureau and General Secretary of the organization.
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January 11 Jose Luis Posada, representative of the Cuban Tourism Enterprise in the
Federal District of Mexico announces that Cuba will abolish tourist visas
for visitors from Mexico and Canada.
March 29 The Cuban Chamber of Commerce hosts a banquet in honor of the Ontario
trade mission, headed by Thomas Leslie Horowitz, that is visiting Cuba.
April 1
May 25
September 4
September 7
October 20
Foreign Trade official Alberto Betancourt tells a delegation of visiting
Canadian businessmen that Canada "is one of Cuba's most important
trading partners in the Western World."
The Miami Herald reports that about nine of the 29 Cubans being held in
Jamaica, who hijacked a boat 10 months ago to escape Cuba, may soon be
granted permanent residence in Canada.
Canadian Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan arrives in Havana for a
working visit during which he will review bilateral economic relations and
visit agricultural centers.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with Canadian Agriculture Minister
Whelan to discuss Canada's technical and scientific aid to Cuban agricul-
ture and livestock.
Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Ricardo Alarcon discuss bilateral and
international topics with Claude Charland, Maurice Dupress, and other
Canadian leaders while visiting Canada.
December 30 Granma reports that the new Canadian Ambassador to Cuba, Kenneth
Bryce Williamson, presented his credentials to Carlos Rafael Rodriguez
and Isidoro Malmierca.
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February 11 Former Guinea-Bissau President Luis Cabral, exiled in Cuba for the past
13 months, is scheduled to leave for Cape Verde Island next week.
March 1 The Council of State appoints Gilberto GarciaAlejo as Cuba's Ambassador
to Cape Verde.
Former Guinea-Bissau head of state Luis Cabral arrives in Cape Verde
after 14 months of exile in Cuba.
July 28 Jesus Montane and Julio Cesar de Carbalho, member of the Political
Bureau of the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde sign a co-
operation agreement for the Independence of Cape Verde.
September 22 Vice President of the ANAP Jorge Lezcano welcomes a delegation of Cape
Verdian legislators.
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Caribbean Islands
Paris L'Humanite interviews Armando Hart on US intervention in Central
America and the Caribbean and the recent Nonaligned Summit meeting in
New Delhi.
Senator Goldwater also says the US should send ships and planes to the
Caribbean to stop arms shipments from Cuba and Nicaragua to Salvador-
an guerrillas.
June 18 Havana press reports on plans for US military maneuvers, "Quick
Rescue," in the Caribbean.
July 21
Antigua and Barbuda reject Havana's request to land an aircraft carrying
students who had been on scholarships in Cuba without government
approval.
August 19 Central Committee member Pedro Fernandez discusses Central America
and the Caribbean status quo and bilateral cooperation with Guyanese
President Burnham in Guyana.
August 22 Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in East Berlin; he discusses the
international situation, especially Central America and the Caribbean and
bilateral relations with his counterpart.
September 5 The regional technical meeting on adult education in Latin America and
the Caribbean opens. Minister of Education Jose Ramon Fernandez
discusses improving the national education system.
October 25 Havana International Service reports that Grenada is being invaded by US
troops, and CBS notes that the US forces are accompanied by troops from
Jamaica, Antigua, Barbados, and St. Vincent.
October 26 Fidel Castro sends a personal message to Indira Gandhi concerning the US
invasion of Grenada and the dangerous situation in Central America and
the Caribbean.
November 1 Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Pelegrin Torras arrives in Vientiane; he
discusses Central America and the Caribbean region with his counterpart
Souban Salitthilat.
November 3 Phoun Sipaseut, Foreign Minister of Laos receives Vice Foreign Minister
Pelegrin Torras; they discuss events in Central America and the Caribbe-
an, especially Grenada.
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November 18
Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Pelegrin Torras arrives in Phnom Penh;
he meets with Foreign Ministry official Hun Sen to discuss Central
America and the Caribbean and US aggression in Grenada.
Foreign Minister Nguyen. Co Thach of Vietnam receives Vice Minister of
Foreign Relations Pelegrin Torras to discuss the international situation,
especially Central America and the Caribbean.
Fidel Castro receives Enrique Iglesias, Executive Secretary of the Econom-
ic Commission for Latin America to discuss Central America and the
Caribbean and Latin America economic problems.
Isidoro Malmierca delivers a message from Fidel Castro to Indian Prime
Minister Gandhi in which Fidel offers his ideas about the situation in the
Middle East, Central America, and the Caribbean.
November 30 In a news statement before departing San'a, Malmierca appraises the
leaders on current issues dealing with peace and solidarity, and the
situations in Central America and the Caribbean.
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September 11 Vice President of the Council of Ministers Osmani Cienfuegos speaks at an
event in Havana commemorating the 10th anniversary of the death of
Chilean President Salvador Allende.
Cuba voices its decision to work for a negotiated solution to the Central
American situation in the central meeting on the occasion of the 10th
anniversary of the death of Chilean President Allende.
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January 5 Vice Minister of Foreign Trade Jose de la Fuente and Wang Pinqing,
deputy to China's Minister of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade, sign
a trade protocol for 1983 in Beijing.
October 18 Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas arrives in China at the invitation
of Chen Muhua, Minister of Foreign Economic Relations; they discuss
expanding trade.
At a banquet in China, Ricardo Cabrizas denounces growing US imperial-
ism and its political blackmail and economic blockades in international
trade.
October 19 In Beijing, Ricardo Cabrizas and Chen Muhua discuss the trade volume
between China and Cuba for 1983, estimated at 173 million pounds; Cuba
has become the No. 1 sugar supplier for Cuba.
October 20 Ricardo Cabrizas visits the Canton Trade Fair and is received by Chen Jie,
who represented Chen Muhua, Minister of Foreign Economic Relations
and Trade.
December 23 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Isidoro Malmierca receive the credentials of
Wang Jin, China's new ambassador to Cuba.
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January 6 Fidel Castro welcomes former Colombian President Lopez Michelsen, who
will attend a ceremony to honor a group of intellectuals in Havana on 7
January.
January 7 During an interview by a Colombian correspondent in Havana, Fidel
Castro says there is no reason to rush into a renewal of diplomatic relations
between Colombia and Cuba.
Fidel Castro tells a Colombian news women in Havana that revolution
cannot be exported and that it is a mistake to think that Cuba is guiding
and directing the Salvadoran revolutionaries.
Fidel Castro. decorates the outstanding intellectuals Gabriel Garcia Mar-
quez of Colombia, Mario Benedetti of Uruguay and Pablo Casanova of
Mexico with the Felix Varela Order, first class.
At a press conference for Colombian journalists in Havana, Fidel Castro
says the US has been "systematically opposed" to a "political solution" for
peace in Central America.
January 8-9 Fidel Castro and former Colombian President Lopez Michelsen discuss
various matters of international interest during meetings in Cayo Largo.
January 11
January 12
January 17
In an interview with the Colombian "Caracol" network, Fidel Castro
admits that Colombian guerrillas from the 19 April Movement (M-19)
have been trained in Cuba.
Vice Minister of Culture Antonio Nunez Jimenez accompanies former
Colombian President Michelsen on a tour of the Niceto Perez Livestock-
Agricultural Production Cooperative.
Fidel Castro bids farewell to former President of Colombia Lopez Michel-
sen at the Havana airport.
January 19 Former Colombian President Michelsen reports to President Betancur that
the time is not right to renew diplomatic relations with Havana and Cuba
does not oppose Colombia's entry into the NAM.
February 15 According to the Nonaligned Movement's headquarters in the UN,
Colombia, Bahamas, and Barbados will join the Nonaligned. Honduras
will not be admitted and Venezuela withdraws its application.
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February. 25 Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas arrives in Colombia to attend a
coordination meeting for the sixth UN Conference on Trade and
Development.
April 6 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, Flavio Bravo, and Ricardo Alarcon discuss
economic and social experiences of the Cuban revolution with Colombian
Political leader Senator Alvaro Leyva Duran.
May 18 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez arrives in Bogota to attend a meeting of
prominent Latin Americans who will study the world's economic crisis.
On arriving in Bogota, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez says that creation of a
multinational force to protect the border between Costa Rica and Nicara-
gua would be "dangerous."
May 19 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez says in Bogota that Cuba is not intervening
militarily in any Latin American country, "though we extend solidarity to
all those that want to achieve independence."
June 1 Foreign Minister Malmierca, in Cartagena, says his country might recon-
sider the presence of its military advisers in Nicaragua, "if the US
withdraws its own from El Salvador and Honduras."
Isidoro Malmierca, in Cartagena, Colombia to participate in the 450th
anniversary of the city says, "there are Cuban teachers and doctors in
Nicaragua" as part of a cooperation agreement.
July 18 Colombia's Foreign Press Association announces that Jaime Bateman,
head of Colombia's M-19 Movement, was killed in a plane crash on 28
April 1983.
July 26 Madrid press reports that Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize for
Literature, and former Colombian President Michelsen are in Cuba to
discuss peace in Central America with Fidel Castro.
October 14 A commentary published in Granma, praises Colombia's foreign policy.
October 19 A delegation of Colombian councilmen conclude a visit to Cuba with a
press conference in Havana; they state that they will ask President
Betancur to take measures to resume relations with Cuba.
October 27 Havana accepts offers from Spain and Colombia to airlift the approximate-
ly 600 Cubans on Grenada back to Cuba or to Barbados.
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December .7
Fidel Castro tells Colombian President Betancur that the US has virtually
turned the Cuban diplomats in Grenada into hostages by refusing them
permission to leave the country.
.Prensa Latina reports that Fidel Castro sent a letter to Colombian
..President Betancur deploring the kidnaping of Betancur's brother by leftist
guerrillas.
Fidel Castro sends a second message to Colombian President Betancur
saying that he believes the communique issued by the kidnapers is false be-
cause it is not the language of revolutionaries.
Kidnapers free Jaime Betancur, brother of Colombia's President, after
Fidel Castro and other Colombian guerrilla groups urged his release.
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January 3 Vice President Juan Almeida and Congolese foreign Minister Pierre Nze
discuss bilateral relations and other issues of common interest during a
meeting in Brazzaville.
Juan Almeida praises the fruitful and friendly relations existing between
Cuba and the Congo during a speech delivered in Brazzaville at a luncheon
held in his honor.
January 4 Juan Almeida ends his visit to the Congo with a joint communique
expressing similar views on crucial issues in Africa, Latin America, and
other parts of the world.
April 28 The fourth meeting of the Cuban-Congolese Intergovernmental Commis-
sion opens in Havana to examine bilateral cooperation in the fields of
public health, cattle industry, and construction.
May 2 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez discusses economic and scientific-technical coop-
eration and trade with Emmanuel Yoka, minister delegate of the presiden-
cy of the People's Republic of the Congo.
May 17 Minister of Construction Abroad Levi Farah arrives in the Congo; he
meets with Congolese President Denis Sassou-Nguesso.
July 23 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives the credentials of Robert Issombo
accrediting him as the new ambassador from the People's Republic of the
Congo.
August 19 Politburo alternate member Armando Acosta attends the 20th anniversary
of the revolution in the Congo, where he discusses international and
bilateral affairs with President Sassou-Nguesso.
October 19 Major Benoit Moundele-Ngollo, Minister of Public Works and Construc-
tion of the Congo arrives in Havana to discuss cooperation in the
construction field.
October 25 Politburo, member Jorge Risquet is received in Brazzaville by Congolese
President Denis SassouNguesso; they discuss bilateral relations and inter-
national problems, especially Africa and L.A.
October 27 A joint communique is issued in the Congo rejecting all attempts to link
Namibia's independence to the presence of Cuban troops in Angola during
Ramiro Valdes' visit.
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October 28 Congolese Foreign Minister Pierre Nze meets with the press before he
departs Havana to condemn the US invasion of Grenada.
December 15 President of the Congo Denis Sassou-Nguesso receives Carlos Lage, First
Secretary of Cuba's Union of Young Communists to discuss current
African and Central American topics.
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January, 18 A group of Costa Rican deputies visiting Cuba meet with Fidel Castro to
discuss Latin America's political, economic, and social situation before
returning to Costa Rica.
Fidel Castro tells the Costa Rican deputies that he will do everything
possible to have peace and harmony between Nicaragua and Costa Rica,
but that he cannot intervene in local affairs.
July 11 Former Costa Rican President Oduber arrives in Havana to exchange
views on the current situation in Central America.
October 13 Minister of Education Jose Ramon Fernandez receives Costa Rican
Professor Maria Eugenia Dengo de Vargas; UNESCO regional director.
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Cuba Internal
Havana press announces that Cuba's ,infant mortality rate has dropped, to
17.4 deaths for each 1,000, children born in 1982, the lowest of any
underdeveloped nation.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez discusses the current international situation and
the Nonaligned Movement with representatives of the United Nations who
have been visiting Cuba since 2 January.
Havana press announces that a group.of 174 finalyear Cuban medical
students will leave Havana.this week.to,begin work in the country's rural
and small-town clinics and hospitals.
The Standing Committee of Intellectuals for.the Sovereignty of the Peoples
of Our America meets in Havana. They call for a negotiated political
solution in El Salvador and harmony in the area.
Minister of Agriculture Arnaldo Milian opens a new community with 30
housing units in the Manantiales Coffee Region, near the Hanabanilla
River in the Villa Clara Province of Manicaragua.
Fidel Castro hosts a reception for the members of the Standing Committee
of Intellectuals for the Sovereignty of the Peoples of Our America.
Torrential rains damage 12 million tobacco plants near Havana.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez addresses the 12th Youth National Seminar of
Marti Studies stressing the relevancy and influence of Marti on Latin
American and Cuban politics.
Vilma Espin attends the meetings of the UN Advisory Council of the
International Institute for the Status of Women in New York. She is
elected vice-president of the council.
Richard Edmund Butler, secretary general of the International Telecom-
munications Union arrives in Havana and discusses the communications
field with Transportation Minister Guillermo Garcia.
Havana press announces that the 26 July commemorative celebration of
the 30th Anniversary of the assault on Moncada Barracks will be held in
Santiago de Cuba Province.
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January 31 Fidel Castro heads the unusually large parade marking the end of the
national celebration of the 130th anniversary of Jose Marti's birth.
Fidel Castro receives the first Jose Maria Perez award from the Transpor-
tation Workers Union during a ceremony in Camaguey.
February 16 Minister of the Steelworking Industry Lage says that significant steps have
been taken in 1983 to solve the vital problem of the national economy-
the production and recovery of spare parts.
The "Spare Parts" meeting in Havana is attended by 700 delegates and
guests, mainly outstanding innovators and efficiency experts. Pedro Miret
makes the closing remarks.
February 24 Politburo member Pedro Miret asks Cuban citizens to make greater efforts
to ensure the fulfillment of economic, social, and political objectives.
Politburo member Pedro Miret speaks at a ceremony marking the begin-
ning of all activities commemorating the 30th anniversary of the revolu-
tion's triumph that will end on 1 January 1984.
February 28 Sugar Industry Minister Torralba reports that heavy rains have greatly
affected the sugarcane harvest throughout the country.
March 1 Raul Castro, Juan Almeida, and Ramiro Valdes preside over the main
celebration commemorating the 20th anniversary of the founding of the
Border Guard Troops.
March 2
March 7-12
March 9
March 10
In a press interview, First Vice Minister of Agriculture Adolfo Diaz says
that the tobacco, tomato, and potato crops have been greatly affected by
the recent rains.
The 28th CEMA Scientific-Technical Cooperation Meeting is held in
Havana; Vice President of the Council of Ministers Jose Fernandez
presides, protocols are signed.
Osmani Cienfuegos expresses solidarity with and sympathy for women in
other parts of the world who suffer from imperialism during a speech in
Havana marking Women's Day.
Cuban charge d'affaires to the UN Rolando Lopez del Amo sends a letter
to the chairman of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer
Space asking that Cuba be admitted as a member.
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March 13 The Communist Party of Argentina demands that US Ambassador to
Argentina Harry Schlaudeman be declared persona non grata for accusing
Cuba of interfering in Argentina's domestic affairs.
March 14 Raul Castro greets Fidel Castro and his delegation upon their return from
the Nonaligned Summit Meeting in New Delhi and a brief visit to East
Germany.
Fidel Castro and Erich Honecker issue a joint communique in Berlin
expressing their profound concern on the threat of a nuclear war.
Cuban officials describe the Seventh Nonaligned Summit as the crowning
point to Fidel Castro's_ chairmanship because it strengthened the move-
ment's unity and improved Cuba's image.
March 16 John Ferch, head of the US Interests Section in Havana, says that "Cuba
is a danger to peace in the region," during a seminar in Havana attended
by international specialists.
March 17 Havana press reports heavy damage to crops, cattle and housing, as well as
dozens of injured, resulting from several tornados that hit Havana and
Pinar del Rio provinces.
March 20 The first exercise of the staff of the Territorial Militia troops is held in
Ciego de Avila Province to develop practical responses in the event of war.
March 23 The Pentagon announces that the Soviet Union has sent a record number
of Bear reconnaissance aircraft to Cuba, apparently to monitor a major
exercise by US and allied Navies in the Caribbean.
An editorial in Granma notes that Cuba is witnessing its coldest and
wettest winter in the last 40 to 50 years. The tobacco and sugar crops have
been devastated by the weather.
March 24 The National Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the death of
Karl Marx is held in Havana; Jorge Risquet delivers the keynote speech.
March 26 Wayne Smith, former chief of the US Interests Section in Havana,
accompanies Senator Lowell Weicker of Connecticut to Cuba, where
Weicker will talk with Fidel Castro on marine science.
USSR Ambassador to Cuba Katushev decorates Politburo member Ar-
naldo Milian with the Friendship of the Peoples Order on the occasion of
Milian's 70th birthday.
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March 27 Havana press announces that approximately 2 million Cubans are giving
up their day off to join a voluntary work program to help the country's ag-
riculture, crippled by months of heavy rains.
March 30 About 600 delegates and guests from every area of production and services
are attending a meeting at the Economic Planning School in Havana to
discuss energy conservation..
March 31-April 2 The Eighth Scientific Coordinating Meeting of CEMA countries is held in
Havana analyzing topics related to the transplant of organs and tissues.
April 2 Politburo alternate member Antonio Perez Herrero receives the delega-
tions which attended the 10th meeting of directors of central institutes of
educational sciences held in Havana on 28 March.
April 4 Vietnamese Foreign Minister Ho Tam sends a message of sympathy to
Isidoro Malmierca concerning the severe damage suffered by Havana and
other areas from heavy storms.
President of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television Nivaldo Herrera
opens the 20th meeting of the International Work Group on Exchange of
Current Intervision News.
April 5 Education Minister Jose Ramon Fernandez chairs the ceremony to
establish the 12th contingent of the Manuel Ascunce Domenech Pedagogic
Detachment, a group of 'internationalist teacher-volunteers.
April 5-8 Havana hosts the 24th meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission for
Socialist Countries' Cooperation in the Sphere,of Computer Technology.
April 6 The 24th meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission for Socialist
Countries' for cooperation in Computer Technology begins in Havana;
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with the delegation.
April 7 Vice President of the Council of State Jose Ramon Fernandez attends the
closing session of the 20th meeting of the; work group on exchange of
current intervision news.
April 8 A multinational protocol is signed, ending the meeting of Intergovernmen-
tal Commission on Computer Technology. Cuba uses this technology in all
branches of its economy.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez presides over the yearly plenary meeting of the
public administration workers emulation program held at the Lazaro Pena
auditorium.
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Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Thomas Enders
warns that any escalation of the conflict in Nicaragua by the Soviet Union
or Cuba would create a "dangerous situation."
A CEMA Veterinary Services meeting opens in Havana.
April 12-14 The Nonaligned meeting on Nuclear Energy is held in Havana, Fidel
Castro is elected chairman by consensus.
April 15
April 16
Fidel and Raul Castro receive a red commemorative plaque of the 30th an-
niversary of Moncada from Jose Ramon Balaguer during a ceremony at
the Palace of the Revolution.
Raul Castro and Division General Sixto Batista Santana preside at the
ceremony marking the 22nd anniversary of Militia Day held at the Camilo
Cienfuegos FAR Artillery School in La Cabana.
April 17 An international seminar on the military and industrial complex in
preparing a nuclear war is held in Havana.
April 18
Senator Lawton Chiles of Florida says the Reagan administration has
drafted emergency plans calling for a US naval blockade in Southern
Florida to bar any new mass influx of Cuban refugees.
The US refuses to allow Cuba's Cultural Vice Minister Garcia Espinosa
into the US to attend a film festival in Los Angeles.
April 20 Jorge Risquet and Major General Sixto Batista preside over the low-key
ceremony in Matanzas Province, commemorating the Bay of Pigs victory;
no major speech is made.
Fidel Castro receives Romesh Chandra, chairman of the World Peace
Council, who is in Cuba to attend the seminar on Military-Industrial
Complex.
April 26
April 29
The Subcommittee on International Operations of the House of Represen-
tatives Foreign Affairs Committee approves plans to set up a "free Cuba"
radio station.
The 10th meeting of directors of international relations of Culture
Ministries from socialist countries ends in Havana; a message from Culture
Minister Hart is read.
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Fidel Castro leads a crowd of approximately 800,000 in a march through
Havana's Revolutionary Square as part of celebrations marking the
international day of workers.
Havana identifies the individual who hijacked the US aircraft on 1 May as
Rigoberto Gonzalez Sanchez, of Cuban nationality, who left the country
legally in 1969.
During a speech to the National Rifle Association, President Reagan
accuses high-level Cuban Government officials of being involved in
smuggling drugs into the United States.
The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions announces that
Cuba has arrested four lawyers who defended workers accused of trying to
form a labor union similar to Poland's Solidarity.
May 13
Defense Secretary Weinberger, speaking at the annual meeting of the
Business Council, says the US would act to block any attempt by the
USSR to deploy its new SS-20 missile in Cuba.
Five modern studios belonging to radio stations CMHW and CMHA in
Santa Clara and a postal and telegraph center and broadcasting repeater
station in Florida, Camaguey Province.are inaugurated.
May 15
May 16
May 17
May 18
The Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unions again denies that five
people have been condemned to death for attempting to organize an
independent union.
The Council of State appoints Joel Domenech President of the National
Energy Commission.
The Council of State appoints Pedro Miret Prieto Vice President of the
Council of Ministers and Marcos Portal Leon Minister of Basic Industry.
Fidel Castro addresses Peasants Day ceremony in Havana. He describes
the effects of the year's poor weather on agricultural production and calls
for increased emphasis on cooperatives.
Granma reports that the Cuban Government has offered 300 university-
level scholarships to students from English-speaking and other Caribbean
nations.
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May 19
Alternate Central Committee member Orlando Lugo Fonte is appointed
First Secretary of the party in Pinar del Rio, replacing Jaime Crombet, re-
cently appointed member of Basic Industry.
May 20 President Reagan, speaking in Miami, claims there is strong evidence that
some high Cuban officials are involved in the drug trade and condemns
Havana as a new fascist regime.
May 24 The Cuban National Committee in support of the World Assembly for
Peace and Life Against Nuclear War is formed in Havana. Politburo
alternate member Jose Ramirez Cruz, presides.
May 25
May 26
Assistant Secretary Enders meets with the head of the Cuban Interests
Section to request that Cuba accept the return of several hundred Cubans
who came to the US during the 1980 boatlift.
Thousands of Cuban workers, peasants, students, Pioneers, Federation of
Cuban Women members, and housewives demonstrate against statements
made by President Reagan and Senator Goldwater.
Central Committee member Lionel Soto opens the international scientific
meeting in Havana and criticizes recent statements on Cuba made by
President Reagan and Senator Goldwater.
May 27 The Reagan administration charges Cuba with expanding "political-
military activism" in Central America; that Cubans, Nicaraguans, and
Salvadoran guerrillas are planning attacks in the region.
May 28 . The Ministry of the Armed Forces announces that military training
exercises will be held in the western region of the country until 3 June.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez is awarded the title of professor emeritus by the
rector of the University of Havana; during a speech he denounces the US.
June 4 Fidel Castro is proclaimed honorary president of the National Association
of the Blind-ANCI-during the closing session of its first congress which
was held in Havana.
Cuba celebrates the 22nd anniversary of the founding of the Ministry of
the Interior. Interior Minister Valdes attends the concluding ceremonies in
Las Tunas.
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June 8-9 The Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs
Committee approve a bill authorizing the operation of government-
sponsored radiobroadcasts to Cuba-Radio Marti.
June 10 Granma reports on the complex exercises conducted by the Armed Forces,
reserves, and Territorial Militia during maneuvers held in the western
region from 30 May to 3 June.
The Council of State approves the decree-law establishing the National
Energy Commission that will have the responsibility of recommending
national energy policies to the government.
Over 213,000 Federation of Cuban Women members have pledged to join
the Territorial Militia Troops in Ciego de Avila, Cienfuegos, Sancti
Spiritus, and Villa Clara.
Secretariat member Julian Rizo Alvarez, in his closing remarks at the first
national meeting on agricultural chemistry, says that Cuba currently
produces 1.5 million tons of fertilizers per year.
Over 400,000 women from Havana City confirm their readiness to join the
ranks of the Territorial Militia Troops during the assembly process started
last month.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez attends the Mexico-Cuba cultural ceremony in
Havana hosted by the Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples in tribute
to Juan Marinello.
Havana press announces that two additional units will open this month at
the Antonio Maceo Thermoelectric Plant in Santiago de Cuba, raising the
plant's generating capacity to 400 megawatts.
The pledges of 21,61 women from Holguin to join the Territorial Militia
Troops are turned over to Miguel Cano Blanco, Politburo alternate
member.
Over 86,000 Federation of Cuban Women from Granma Province declare
themselves ready to join the Territorial Militia Troops in response to the
"threats of aggression hurled by US imperialists."
Cuban delegate to the 69th ILO Conference in Havana Osmel Francis de
los Reyes denounces capitalist exploitation in their relations with underde-
veloped nations.
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June 17 Havana press announces that "Bastion 83"- exercises, maneuvers, and
drills, with the participation of leadership units-will be conducted
throughout the country from 20 to 25 June.
Foreign Minister Malmierca outlines the,principles of Cuba's foreign
policy for the delegates of the Latin American journalists' seminar.
During his address to the 8th Latin American Journalists Seminar in
Havana, Malmierca says that Cuba supports the Contadora Group's
efforts to find a peaceful solution to Central America.
The New York Times reports that Cuba's top combat commander, General
Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, has been secretly assigned to Nicaragua, thus
expanding Cuba's military role in Central America.
June 20 Over 42,000 Federation of Cuban Women members from Guantanamo
have expressed their readiness to join the Territorial Militia Troops.
National defense exercises "Bastion 83" begin throughout Cuba.
June 22 In Santiago de Cuba Province, 174,733 women pledge to join the ranks of
the Territorial Militia Troops.
June 23 Fidel Castro, on a visit to Matanzas to learn some details of defense
procedures in the area, says the national defense exercises, maneuvers, and
practice have been progressing well.
June 24 After a fire breaks out in one of its fuel tanks, Fidel Castro visits the Nico
Lopez Refinery to inquire about the fate of the workers and the fire
fighting procedures.
More than 800 workers are building Cuba's largest thermoelectric power
plant in Santa Cruz del Norte; the Soviet-designed plant is expected to
take 10 years to complete, costing $715 million.
The Central Committee announces that former President Osvaldo Dorticos
has committed suicide.
Fidel Castro orders the "Bastion 83" defense exercises to end.
Fidel Castro visits the Riguero funeral parlor in Havana to pay posthu-
mous tribute to the outstanding revolutionary fighter Osvaldo Dorticos
Torrado, who took his own life on 23 June.
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June 25 Cuban authorities announce that future aircraft hijackers face prison
sentences" of 12 to 20 years instead of the three-year average in force since
1980.
June 27 Fidel and Raul Castro attend a ceremony at which Vilma Espin presents
the commitments of 1,882,35 Cuban women to join the Territorial Militia.
At a ceremony at the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, Fidel
Castro praises the work carried out by party and government leaders who
participated in "Bastion 83."
July 1 Arnaldo Milian Castro, member or the Politburo, Vice President of the
Council of State, and Minister of Agriculture, dies.
July 3-9 The International Health Conference is held in Havana. Fidel Castro
attends the opening session. Health Minister Sergio del Valle and the
Director of the World Health Organization Mahler speak.
July 6 Fidel Castro receives the participants of the international conference,
"Health for Everyone: 25 years of Cuban Experience." World Health
Organization Director Mahler attends the reception.
July 9 Raul Castro presides over the Air Force cadets' graduation ceremony at
which Jaime Crombet praises the high level of excellence attained by the
military training centers.
Fidel Castro chairs the Havana City Province Assembly that will review
the work accomplished by that political organization from October 1980 to
June 1983.
Fidel Castro visits the medical technology exhibit at the Havana Libre
Hotel as part of the international conference "Health for Everyone" 25
Years of Cuban Experience."
July 11
July 12
Fidel Castro closes Havana City Province Party Assembly. Julio Camacho
is ratified provincial first secretary and Jorge Valdes Rodriguez is elected
second secretary.
Raul Castro speaks at a ceremony honoring Blas Roca Calderio on the
occasion of his upcoming 75th birthday.
The seventh plenum of the Central Committee, chaired by Fidel Castro,
removes Pedro Miret Prieto from the Secretariat and designates Jaime
Crombet as a member.
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July 13
July 14
July 15
Fidel Castro attends the fourth session of the Second Legislature of the
National Assembly of the People's Government; he speaks on health.
Appointments announced at the National Assembly meeting: Pedro Miret,
vice president of the Council of Ministers; Marcos Portal in charge of the
Ministry of Basic Industry.
In an announcement at the National Assembly meeting Arturo Guzman is
appointed vice president of the State Committee for Prices.
Minister of Education Jose Ramon Fernandez makes the closing remarks
at the graduation ceremony for 1,478 University of Havana students.
Jamaica's People's National Party leader Manley attends.
Fidel; Castro. speaks at the 2nd day of work of the Fourth Session of the
Second Legislature of the National Assembly of the People's Government
about the, shortage of textbooks.
Fidel Castro attends the closing of the National Assembly of People's
Government, discussing the possibility of keeping secondary students in
school all day with Education Minister Fernandez.
Fidel Castro presides at the opening ceremony of the 20th National School
Games. He is presented a certificate of recognition as founder of the games
and his valuable contribution to sports.
July 17 Fidel Castro opens a new Pioneers and Explorers Center and unveils a
monument erected in honor of Celia Sanchez Manduley.
July 19
Fidel Castro addresses Pioneers on Children's Day stressing the necessity
for primary, secondary, and preuniversity schools to begin having all-day
sessions in the immediate future.
Fidel Castro decorates UNESCO Director General Amadou Mahtar
M'Bow with the Felix Varela Order. Education Minister Fernandez has a
lengthly exchange of views with M'Bow.
July 20 A House subcommittee recommends that Congress reject the proposed US-
sponsored Radio Marti broadcasts to Cuba.
The Council of State appoints Adolfo Diaz Suarez as Minister of
Agriculture.
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July 21
A former Cuban political prisoner tries to hijack a Northwest Orient
Airlines flight bound for Miami, but is subdued by a flight attendant and
two, passengers.
Fidel Castro gives the gold medal representing the title of Work Hero and
the Order of Jose Marti to Blas Roca; this is the first time the title of Work
Hero has been given in Cuba.
July 22
US Pentagon officials report that Soviet arms shipments to Cuba are down,
with only 20,000 metric tons of military equipment arriving in Cuba during
the first six months of 1983.
Fidel Castro, in a letter to the Presidents of the Contadora nations, says
that Cuba supports a negotiated settlement of the strife in Central
America.
Antonio Perez Herrero presents the first issue of the book entitled:
Pensamaiento de Fidel Castro. The three volumes contain speeches and
statements made by Fidel Castro.
July 23
Captain Ana Vila of the Santiago de Cuba Province of the Federation of
Cuban Women reports that 150,279 Santiago women pledged their
readiness to join the Territorial Militia Troops.
Havana press announces that the main runway at Santiago's Antonio
Maceo International Airport has been lengthened by more than 260 meters
to improve landing conditions and taxiing operations.
Cuban intelligence officer Raul Perez Mendez, who controlled Cuban
agents planted in the exile community and was involved in drug trafficking
and smuggling, defects to the US.
Foreign Affairs Vice Minister Alarcon tells a news conference that the
recent arrests of a group of prominent jurists was for "violating the' laws of
the constitution."
Prensa Latina reports that Cuba has 9.7 million people, and 47 percent
were born after Fidel Castro gained power in January 1959.
July 24
July 28
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez gives the keynote speech at a ceremony in
Bayamo marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Simon Bolivar.
The New York Times reports that former Salvadoran guerrilla Arqui-
medes Canadas, in an interview in the US, says that Cuba has "directed
the activities" of the insurgency in El Salvador since 1980.
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July 29
The reputed head of the anti-Castro terrorist group Omega 7, agrees to go
to New. York and face charges in the attempted bombing of the Cuban am-
bassador's car in 1980.
August .1 A report on the September 1981 census published recently in Granma says
"the week before the census was taken 121,700 people were looking for
work, representing 3.4 percent of the population."
August 2.
TASS reports on US Senator McGovern's press conference in Washington
and his talks with Fidel Castro in Havana. McGovern feels Cuba is ready
to discuss bilateral problems with the US.
August 3 Fidel Castro presents the Cuban flag to the sports delegation that will
participate in the ninth Pan American Games in Venezuela.
August 5 Fidel Castro, in Havana, attends the first seminar on interferon being held
in a Latin American country. Education Minister Jose Ramon Fernandez
delivers the opening speech.
August 6
In a statement issued in Havana, the Cuban Movement for Peace and
Sovereignty of Peoples expresses its support of the Nicaraguan revolution
and condemns US escalation in Central America.
Havana announces that 122,000 women have pledged to join the ranks of
the Territorial Militia Troops in Camaguey Province.
August 12 Speaking before the People's Government Provincial Assembly of Cienfue-
gos, Flavio Bravo says the development of local industry is important and
will contribute to self-financing of municipalities.
August 22 Raul Castro presides ,over the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the
Special Troops Directorate in Havana.
August, 23. . In a press interview in Havana, Vilma Espin discusses the role of women in
defense and the increase of enlistments by women into the Territorial
Troops Militia that exceeds 1,882,000.
August 24 Raul Castro sends.greetings to members of the Federation of Cuban
Women throughout the country on the occasion of the organization's 23rd
anniversary.
August 25 Minister of Public Health Sergio del Valle speaks at the graduation of the
Giron Victory Higher. Institute of Medical Sciences largest class ever, 1,54
new health care professionals.
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August 30
September 1
September 2
September 3
September 5-6
September 8
September 10
September 11
September 17
September 19
September 20
Minister of Education Jose Ramon Fernandez tells the directors of 26
basic urban secondary schools that all-day school sessions will be used in
those schools beginning in September.
Major Juan Peruggoria Cruz from the Directorate of Chemical Troops
announces the establishment of the Communications and Chemical Troops
School to provide advanced training.
Fidel Castro hosts a reception for members of the Cuban delegation to the
Ninth Pan American Games.
Raul Castro presides over a ceremony opening the Provincial School for
Commanding Cadres of Territorial Troops Militia in Pinar del Rio.
The National Energy Commission is officially established; Joel Domenech
is president. Politburo alternate members Pedro Miret and Osmani
Cienfuegos attend the first meeting.
Raul Castro sends a letter of congratulations to the Navy on its 20th
anniversary. He and Carlos Rafael Rodriguez attend a ceremony at the
Central Naval District rifle range in Cienfuegos.
Fidel Castro is chosen as a precandidate for delegate to the 15th CTC Con-
gress in the assembly for discussion of worker development in Santiago de
Cuba.
The Cuban Olympic Committee announces that Coach Manuel Guizin
accepts full responsibility for the use of drugs by athletes Daniel Nunez
and Alberto Blanco during the Pan American Games in Caracas.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez wrote the speech delivered by Osmani Cienfuegos
at the ceremony for Salvador Allende but was unable to deliver; he had
suffered a shoulder dislocation before the ceremony.
Vilma Espin attends a ceremony in Pinar del Rio where 33,000 women are
sworn into the territorial militia.
Cuba releases partial statistics from the 1981 census, showing that on 11
Septmber 1981 the population numbered 9,723,75-evenly divided be-
tween males and females-the average grade level 6.4.
A message is read by Colonel Rafael Morales from Raul Castro at the na-
tional ceremony commemorating the FAR civilian workers day.
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September 26
September 27
Raul Castro opens the Camilo Cienfuegos Military School in Ciego de
Avila on the 17th anniversary of the founding of these institutions; the new
center has the capacity for 600 students.
Raul Castro presides over a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the
Congress of Peasants in Arms in Santiago de Cuba. Raul and Jose
Ramirez Cruz cancel a stamp commemorating the anniversary.
Cuba is elected to the vice presidency of the UN Commission for Social,
Humanitarian, and Cultural Affairs. Delegate Maria de los Angeles Flores
won almost unanimous approval with 79 votes out of 87.
Paris press announces that Cuban dissident academic Tomas Bofill has
been missing from his home in Havana since 24 September.
Havana press announces that the National Bank of Cuba will put a limited
number of 3 peso bills into circulation in early October, coinciding with the
anniversary of the fall of Che Guevara.
The Council of State approves resolution No. 27, signed by Fidel Castro,
awarding the city of Santiago de Cuba the honorary title Hero of the
Republic of Cuba and the Order of Antonio Maceo.
September 28 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives Hugo Navajar Mogro, Regional Director
of the UN program for Latin America, to discuss the international
economy and Cuba's development efforts.
September 29
October 1
October 5
Raul Castro, Vilma Espin, and Armando Acosta preside over a ceremony
in Santiago de Cuba awarding that city the title of Hero of the Republic of
Cuba and the Order of Antonio Maceo.
Paris press announces that Cuba has arrested the former vice rector of the
University of Havana, Ricardo Bofill, after promising France that the anti-
Castro dissident would be left alone.
The Council of State names Dr. Juan Escalona Reguera as Minister of
Justice. He has been a Brigadier General acting for the Ministry of the
Armed Forces as Head of Civil Defense.
Politburo alternate member Humberto Perez, concluding a meeting in
Camaguey which analyzed the 1984 economic plan, reports a 4-percent
economic growth during the first 9 months of this year.
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October 7 Commander of the Revolution Guillermo Garcia Frias presides at the
national ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the establishment of
the Las Villas North Front. Sergio del Valle delivers the speech.
October 10 The principal national commemoration of the 115th anniversary of the 10
October 1868 uprising was held at La Demajagua national monument in
Granma Province.
October 11 The conference of shipping organizations from CEMA member countries
opens in Havana with the participation of representatives from internation-
al shipping organizations.
October 12 The 60th meeting of the CEMA Standing Commission for the Field of
Ferrous Metallurgy opens in Havana; Politburo member Pedro Miret
presides, and Marcos Lage delivers the welcoming speech.
October 14 Raul Castro congratulates the militiawomen of the territorial troops of
Havana for having enlisted more than 50,000 women into their ranks.
October 15 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez briefs the chiefs of CEMA's Standing Commis-
sion in Ferrous Metallurgy on the importance of the ferrous metallurgy
industry in strengthening Cuba's economy.
Interior Minister Ramiro Valdes delivers a speech at the 25th anniversary
ceremony commemorating the establishment of the Las Villas guerrilla
front led by Che Guevara.
October 21 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez assumes the presidency of the CEMA Executive
Committee. During his speech at the CEMA meeting in Berlin, he praises
the gains the Cuban economy has made in recent years.
Fidel and Raul Castro are elected delegates to the 15th Congress of the
Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unions.
October 31 Fidel Castro orders the militia in Havana to mobilize for a massive Tally to
honor the Cuban dead and wounded returning from the fighting on
Grenada.
The fifth conference of education ministers opens in Havana. Education
Minister Jose Ramon Fernandez is elected chairman of the conference;
positions on educational development are discussed.
November 1 President Seaga announces that Jamaica is expelling four Soviet diplomats
and a Cuban journalist for purportedly spying and conspiring to kill a
foreign ministry official.
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Fidel Castro sends his congratulations to all residents of Pinar del Rio
Province who participated in the "Bastion-83" exercise designed to prepare
the people to confront any enemy aggression.
November 3 The Fifth Conference of Education Ministers of Socialist Countries ends in
Havana with the signing of a protocol. Education Minister Jose Ramon
Fernandez presides.
Andre Pasquier, Vice President of the International Red Cross Committee
for Latin America discussed issues of interest to his organization with Fidel
Castro.
November 5 Fidel and Raul Castro greet a new group of 149 Cubans, including women
and children who were taken prisoner during the fighting in Grenada.
November 6 Fidel Castro and other leaders of the Communist Party greet 51 Cuban
prisoners from Grenada.
November 9 Fidel Castro and the construction workers assigned to Grenada have been
proposed as honorary delegates to the Congress of the National Union of
Architects and Construction Engineers.
November 13 Cuba's Council of State issues a decree proclaiming 15-17 November as
national days of mourning for the Cubans who "perished heroically" in
Grenada.
November 21- Havana hosts a meeting of financial experts from different countries and
December 2 international and regional organizations that are participants in the Group
of 77 development program.
November 21 The Reagan Administration announces the halt of imports-of nickel
products from the Soviet Union unless Moscow can guarantee they do not
contain Cuban ore.
November 22 Havana press reports that only 11 sugar mills in four provinces have been
able to begin production in the current season because of excessive
humidity caused by the continuous rainfall.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX) announces that Lazaro Mora
Secades has assumed the function of Director of International Organiza-
tions of MINREX.
November 24 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez discusses Cuba's economy and the importance of
the development of communications in Cuba with the heads of delegations
to the 24th meeting of CEMA.
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November 26 Raul Castro sends a message of congratulations to the FAR marking the
20th anniversary of the obligatory military service law and the creation of
the military committee.
November 28 An NSC Staff official calls for efforts to deepen Cuba's economic and
political isolation as part of a plan aimed at inducing Cuba to moderate its
foreign policy.
Division Generals Senen Casas and Sixto Batista preside over the opening
session of the first meeting for the Exchange of Experience of the Defense
Unions of social countries in Havana.
Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane attends the International
Symposium on Zionist Interference in Latin America which opens in
Havana.
November 30 At a news conference, Interior Minister Borge said the Nicaraguan
Government has reaaffirmed its willingness to do without Cuban military
advisers if a Central American peace treaty is signed.
A ceremony marking the 27th anniversary of the armed uprising of
Santiago is held at the Moncada Barracks. Julio Camacho Aguilera, Vilma
Espin, Jaime Crombet, and Jose Ramon Balaguer attend.
December 1 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with members of the delegations taking
part in the 24th meeting of the chiefs of CEMA countries to discuss the
importance Cuba attaches to technology.
December 1-5 The 24th CEMA conference of public health ministers from socialist
countries is held in Havana.
December 2 A military ceremony commemorating the 27th anniversary of the landing
of the Granma and the founding of the FAR is held at the Maximo Gomez
Military Academy; Raul Castro is honored.
Awards, signed by Fidel Castro, are presented to the participants of the
Bastion 83 exercises, held in June 1983, during a ceremony at the Old
Model Prison National Monument on the Isle of Youth.
December 5 The 14th meeting of the CEMA Permanent Commission for Pubic Health
begins in Havana. The meeting will examine topics dealing with malignant
illnesses, organ and tissue transplants, and medicines.
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December 14
December 16
Fidel Castro sends a letter of congratulations to the constructors of
Santiago Province. Politburo member Jorge Risquet reads the message
during the ceremony for the National Day of the Constructor.
The Council of State announces that elections will be held on Sunday, 15
April 1984, to elect delegates for a 2 and 1/2 year term to the municipal
assemblies of the People's Goverment.
The fourth national scientific military conference opens in Havana.
Representatives of the medical services of Angola, Bulgaria, and Nicara-
gua, as well as Cuban delegates will participate.
The National Bank of Cuba and the State. Committee for Statistics
disclose a decline of more than a million tons in sugar production for the
1982-83 period.
Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas opens the 13th conference of
Chamber of Commerce presidents of CEMA member-countries; he re-
ferred to the international situation..
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez speaks at the conclusion of the Fourth National
Conference of the Cuban Livestock Production Association meeting in
Havana.
Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs says the Ameri-
can-led invasion of Grenada was "to a certain degree a humiliation" for
Cuba.
December 17 Transportation Minister Guillermo Garcia Frias. announces that plans are
underway for the rehabilitation and modernization of the railroad system.
December 19 The Fifth International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema
concludes. Fidel Castro hosts a reception for the participants from Asian,
Africa, Latin America, and European countries.
December 20 Fidel Castro presides over, the eighth plenum of the Central Committee of
the Communist Party of Cuba.
December 21 Fidel Castro attends the Second session of the National Assembly of the
People's Government.. Flavio Bravo honors the martyrs of Grenada.
Havana press reports that the theoretical magazine Cuba Socialista,
published by the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party, is
now on sale throughout the country.
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December 30
The fifth regular session of the People's Government National Assembly
ends. Fidel Castro speaks and Adolfo Diaz Suarez is named Minister of
Agriculture.
In an interview with TASS correspondent in Havana, Carlos Rafael
Rodriguez stresses that the Cuban people are loyal to the ideals of the revo-
lution and will fight for peace all over the world.
Raul Castro inspects centers of social and economic interest in Camaguey.
The alleged leader of the Omega 7 anti-Castro terrorist group is indicted in
New York on charges involving 14 bombings and a failed plot to kill
Cuba's UN Ambassador Raul Roa.
Raul Castro tours the east-central province of Camaguey, bringing
greetings from Fidel and praising the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, and East
Germany for their part in Cuban development.
Interior Minister Ramiro Valdes urges citizens to work for the develop-
ment of the Cuban economy and to strengthen defenses during 25th
anniversary celebrations.
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Cyprus
Fidel Castro assures Takis Khatzidhimitriou, Secretary General of the
Socialist Party of Cyprus, of Cuba's interest in Cyprus and his decision to
maintain Cuba's solidarity with Cyprus.
The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Relations issues a strong note condemning
the recent unilateral proclamation of a so-called Turkish Republic of
Northern Cyprus, dividing the country of Cyprus.
December 18 Cuba, through UN delegate Raul Roa Kouri, calls for the UN Security
Council to condemn the declaration issued by the Turkish Cypriot
leadership on the partitioning of Cyprus into two states.
December 29 President Kyprianou of,Cyprus sends a congratulatory message to Fidel
Castro on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution
and expresses thanks for Cuba's support to Cyprus.
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January 10 The Council of State has given the Playa Giron Award to Gustav Husak,
president of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic for his outstanding
participation in the fight against fascism.
January 18 A delegation of the Czechoslovak Interior Ministry, led by Minister
Jaromir Obzina, arrives in Havana.
January 20 Interior Minister Ramiro Valdes accompanies CSSR Interior Minister Dr.
Jaromir Obzina to Holguin Province where he is briefed on the socioeco-
nomic developments in the province.
March 1 Cuba and Czechoslovakia sign an energy agreement for the acquisition of
two generating units of 250 megawatts each and for the assembly of a new
thermoelectric power plant in Holguin.
March 18 The first Emulation agreement between Cuba and Czech enterprises for
bilateral relations in trade, exchange of information, and contracts is
signed by Ferromet and Cubametals.
March 22 Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Oscar Oramas meets in Prague with
Czech Deputy Foreign Minister Jindrich Rehoreck to discuss current
international issues.
April 8
April 18
Cuba and Czechoslovakia sign a 1983-85 cooperation agreement in
Cinematographic Industries in Havana.
Lionel Soto, member of the Central Committee Secretariat arrives in
Prague and exchanges party work experiences in economic management
with Milos Jakes, CPCZ Central Committee official.
April 22 PCC Secretariat member Lionel Soto meets with Czechoslovakia's Presi-
dent Gustav Husak.
Mays
Transportation Minister Guillermo Garcia Frias arrives in Prague to
discuss expanding mutual cooperation in transportation with Czechoslova-
kian transportation Minister Vladimir Blazek.
Transportation Minister Guillermo Garcia Frias presents the Order of
Playa Giron award to President Gustav Husak of Czechoslovakia on the
occasion of his 70th birthday.
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May 10
June 27
July 10
July 22
Vice President of the Cuban Council of State Guillermo Garcia Frias
discusses economic relations with Czechoslovak Deputy Premier Ladislav
Gerle.
Transportation Minister Garcia Frias departs Prague. During his visit he
visited industrial and transportation enterprises and discussed expanding
cooperation in transportation.
President of Cuba's National Association of Small Farmers Jose Ramirez
Cruz arrives in Prague to attend the World Assembly for Peace and Life
meetings scheduled to open on 21 June.
President of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples Rene Rodri-
guez meets in Czechoslovakia with Yasir Arafat to discuss the Middle East
situation.
In a press interview in Prague, President of the National Association of.
Small Farmers Jose Ramirez Cruz says Cuba has made great strides in
agriculture.
Vice President of the Council of Ministers Joel Domenech arrives in
Prague. He discusses furthering mutual cooperation in energy with CSSR
Fuels and Power Minister Vlastimil Ehrenberger.
Czechoslovakia President Gustav Husak sends greetings to Blas Roca
Calderio and conferred the Order of Friendship on him on the occasion of
his 75th birthday.
July 29 Czechoslovakia's President Gustav Husak confers The Order of Friendship
award to Blas Roca Calderio. Secretary of the CPCZ Central Committee
Josef Haman presents the award to Roca.
August 19
Member of the Central Committee Secretariat Julian Rizo Alvarez is
received in Czechoslovakia by candidate-member of the Presidium to
discuss the international situation.
September 21 President of the Provincial- Assembly Oscar Fernandez Mell receives
Zdenek Horcik, First Vice Mayor of Prague.
September 27 Vasil Bilak, Secretary of Czechoslovakia's Central Committee receives
Fernando Vecino Alegret and his delegation to discuss relations between
the two parties and the international situation.
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October 3 Ludovit Pezlar, member of the Presidium and Secretary of the CPSL
Central Committee of Czechoslovakia receives Education Minister Fer-
nando Vecino Alegret.
October 5 Czechoslovakia's Education Minister Milan Vondruska receives Education
Minister Fernando Vecino Alegret in Prague to discuss the educational
system.
October 17
November 1
November 2
December 7
Secretary General of the Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unions
Roberto Veiga departs for Czechoslovakia heading a CTC delegation; they
will also visit Syria and Yugoslavia.
Division General Sixto Batista Santana discusses Communist party rela-
tions and condemns the US invasion in Grenada with CPCZ Central
Committee Secretary Josef Haman.,
Czechoslovak Defense Minister General Martin Dzur discusses the inter-
national situation with Division General Sixto Batista, Chief of the FAR
Central Political Directorate, in Prague.
In a press conference in Prague, Foreign Minister Malmierca says Cuba
believes the deployment of US missiles is a grave and negative step and
Cuba supports the statements of Andropov and the USSR.
Foreign Minister Malmierca and his Czechoslovakian counterpart Bohus-
lav Chnoupek sign a joint communique in Prague expressing solidarity with
Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, and Lebanon.
December 9 A protocol is signed in Prague on the exchange of goods between
Czechoslovakia and Cuba for 1984. Trade will increase by more than 18
percent, and for the first time will exceed R250 million.
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December 8
December 13
. Denmark
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives newsmen of the Denmark-Cuba Friend-
ship Association; they discuss bilateral relations and Cuba's position in
international relations.
Hans Barpuel, President of the Danish Economiclndustrial Committee,
heads the delegation attending the fourth Cuba-Denmark Joint Industrial
Economic Commission talks in Havana.
Politburo alternate member Montane receives Jorgen Jensen, Secretary
General of the Communist Party of Denmark, to discuss the international
situation.
Flavio Bravo, President of the National Assembly, meets with Jorgen
Jensen, Secretary General of the Danish Communist Party to discuss, in
detail, the organization of the National Assembly.
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August 9 The Cuban Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados, Ivan
Cesar Martinez, visits Dominica, where he says that the two countries have
been discussing establishing diplomatic relations.
August 10 The Government of Dominica announces it will refuse Cuban university
scholarships for its citizens as long as Marxism-Leninism is a compulsory
subject of study.
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January 29 Vilma Espin, after her visit to the United Nations, travels to the
Dominican Republic.
February 25 A delegation of legislators from the Dominican Republic, headed by
Antonio Raful, arrives in Havana, where Flavio Bravo briefs them on the
basic functions of the National Assembly.
Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Ricardo Alarcon discusses Cuba's
foreign policy and the international situation with a delegation of legisla-
tors from the Dominican Republic.
Education Ministers Jose Ramon Fernandez and Fernando Vecino Alegret
discuss Cuba's educational development with a group of legislators from
the Dominican Republic.
March 23 A delegation of leftists from the Dominican Republic visiting Cuba meet
with Politburo alternate member Antonio Perez Herrero and Jose Ramirez
Cruz to discuss building socialism.
July 20
August 4
Juan Bosch, president of the Dominican Liberation Party, arrives in Cuba
to attend the main ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the
Revolution.
Minister President of the State Committee for Economic Cooperation
Hector Rodriguez Llompart heads a delegation to Santo Domingo to
participate in the SELA-ECLA meeting.
While in Santo Domingo, Hector Rodriguez Llompart says that Cuba is
working for a negotiated peace in Central America because he feels that
this is the only way to resolve the armed conflict there.
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January 29 Cuba donates ,a shipment of medicines to Ecuador to help the thousands of
victims of the. floods which have affected the seaboard area of Ecuador.
March 1 Fidel Castro receives a letter from Ecuador's President Hurtado requesting
support for a recent proposal that the Latin American countries jointly face
the economic crisis; Fidel agrees.
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October. 12 The Secretary General of the Afro-Asian-Latin American People's Soli-
darity Organization, Melba Hernandez arrives in Cairo.
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January 7 Fidel Castro tells a Colombian news women in Havana that revolution
cannot be exported and that it is a mistake to think that Cuba is guiding
and directing the Salvadoran revolutionaries.
January 10 The Standing Committee of Intellectuals for the Sovereignty of the Peoples
of Our America meets in Havana. They call for a negotiated political
solution in El Salvador and harmony in the area.
March 2 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, in an interview with the Mexican newspaper Uno
Mas Uno, says that Cuba is prepared to assume its commitment for peace
in El Salvador as long as the US does likewise.
March 22 In a television interview in France, Minister of Culture Hart calls on the
international public to work for a negotiated and peaceful settlement in El
Salvador.
March 25
March 26-29
April 2
April 8
May 22
In an interview in Mexico's El Dia, Isidoro Malmierca says that El
Salvador has a choice-the victory of the guerrillas--or a political way out
through negotiations.
Senator Lowell Weicker meets with Fidel Castro, who says he is eager to
find solutions to problems between the US and Cuba on a variety of issues,
including El Salvador and Nicaragua.
A ceremony marking the 13th anniversary of the founding of the Fara-
bundo Marti Popular Forces of El Salvador is held in Havana.
The Federation of Cuban Women issues a communique condemning the
assassination of Salvadoran Revolutionary leader Melida Anaya Montes-
Commander Ana Maria.
Senator Goldwater also says the US should send ships and planes to the
Caribbean to stop arms shipments from Cuba and Nicaragua to Salvador-
an guerrillas.
Foreign Minister Malmierca, in Cartagena, says his country might recon-
sider the presence of its military advisers in Nicaragua, "if the US
withdraws its own from El Salvador and Honduras."
Flavio Bravo meets in Caracas with former Venezuelan President Carlos
Andres Perez, both agree that a solution to the current situation in El
Salvador must be the result of negotiations.
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July 28 The New York Times reports that former Salvadoran guerrilla Arqui-
medes Canadas, in an interview in the US, says that Cuba has "directed
the activities" of the insurgency in El Salvador since 1980.
August 6 Fidel Castro tells French journalists in Havana that despite the "positive"
work of the Contadora Group, "the need" to solve the problems of El
Salvador "has not been clearly defined."
September 13 In a communique issued in Havana, the representatives of the PLO and the
FMLN and FDR fronts expressed their total rejection of the reopening of
the Israeli Embassy in the Salvadoran capital.
September 22 Foreign Relations Vice Minister Ricardo Alarcon tells the London press
that Cuba does not supply weapons to the Salvadoran guerrillas.
October 18 Jorge Gallardo, Vice President of the Cuban Institute of Friendship With
the Peoples ratifies the Cuban people's support for El Salvador as part of
the international day of solidarity.
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May 3
August 29
October 28
November 2
December 30
Ethiopia
Politburo alternate member Montane arrives in Ethiopia and is greeted .by:.
Berhanu Baye and other members of the Commission for Organizing the
Party of the Working People of Ethiopia (COPWE).
First Vice Foreign Minister Jose Viera visits Ethiopia to discuss the
forthcoming Nonaligned Summit Meeting in New Delhi and international
issues with Ethiopian officials in Addis Ababa.
Labor Union leader Pedro Manuel Menchaca terms as positive the
presence of the Cuban delegation at the eighth congress of the Organiza-
tion of African Labor Union Unity recently held in Ethiopia.
Havana press announces that a third contingent of 228 sixth-year medical
students will soon go abroad to spend two years in Nicaragua, Guinea-
Bissau, and Ethiopia.
Chairman of the Provisional Military Administrative Council Mengistu
Haile Mariam sends a condolence letter to Fidel Castro over the deaths of
the Cubans in Grenada and condemns US aggression.
Hachagre Yikleto, member of the Ethiopian Communist Party, discusses
the structure and operation of the Peoples Government National Assembly
with Vice President Lezcano in Havana.
Cuban Ambassador to Zambia Heriberto Feraudy reaffirms Havana's
support for liberation movements in southern Africa and says it will keep
troops in Angola and Ethiopia as long as required.
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April 21 Vice President of the National Assembly Jorge Lezcano departs for
Helsinki, Finland to participate in the preparatory meeting of the Interpar-
liamentary Conference on 24-29 April.
April 27 Vice President of the National Assembly Jorge Lezcano speaks at the
plenary session of the Political Commission of the Parliamentary Union in
Helsinki.
September 13 Juan Almeida and Isidoro Malmierca receive the credentials of Tero
Heikki Mainio Lehtovaara as the new Finnish ambassador to Cuba.
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February 23 Juan Jose Leon, alternate member of the Central Committee arrives in
Paris to participate in a meeting of the international liaison committee for
the peaceful reunification of Korea.
March 15 Cuban Ambassador to UNESCO, Alfredo Guevara, presents his creden-.
tials to UNESCO Director General Amadou Mahtar M'bow during
ceremonies in Paris.
March 21 In an interview in France, Armando Hart says that preliminary negotia-
tions are continuing with Sweden, Spain, and France regarding a possible
visit by Fidel Castro to Western Europe.
Minister of Culture Armando Hart arrives in Paris and meets with his
counterpart Jack Lang.
Minister of Culture Armando Hart meets with Georges Marchais, Secre-
tary of the French Communist Party to discuss the situation in Central
America and relations between the two parties.
March 22 In a television interview in France, Minister of Culture Hart calls on the
international public to work for a negotiated and peaceful settlement in El
Salvador.
Armando Hart discusses the Central American situation, matters related
to ideological and cultural work, and party relations with French Socialist
Party leader Lionel Choussant.
March 23 Paris L'Humanite interviews Armando Hart on US intervention in Central
America and the Caribbean and the recent Nonaligned Summit meeting in
New Delhi.
March 24 Armando Hart inaugurates a painting exhibit in Paris of the work of
Cuban painter Wilfredo Lam. In his speech, Hart refers to the personality
and work of the reknown painter who died last year.
March 25 Paris Mayor Jacques Cherrac receives Gregorio Ortega, Cuban Ambassa-
dor to France in a special farewell audience ending his diplomatic duties.
March 30 The Cuban Committee in Support of the International Conference on the
Palestinian Issue, slated to be held from 16-27 August 1983 in Paris, is
formed in Havana; Malmierca is appointed President.
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April 4 The Council of State appoints Alberto Boza Hidalgo-Gato as Cuban
Ambassador to France.
April 12 Meeting in Paris, private Western banks agree to reschedule 140 million
dollars of Cuba's medium-term debt, postponing payments to 1 July 1986.
April 18 National Bank President Leon Torras and Edith Cresson, French Minister
of Foreign Trade, sign agreements in Paris granting Cuba two lines of
credit amounting to $25 million.
April 24 President of the National Assembly Flavio Bravo arrives in France to
attend the UN conference on Namibia.
April 26 The International'Conference in Support of the Namibian People opens its
second day of work in Paris. Cuba is unanimously elected to fill one of the
five vice presidencies.
April 28
May 2
May 3
May 5
In a speech in Paris, Flavio Bravo reiterates Cuba's unyielding and
solidarity commitment in support, of Namibia's struggle for independence:
President of the Cuban Academy of Sciences Wilfredo Torres and French
official Pierre Labeaux sign a 1983 plan for scientific-technical coopera-
tion in Havana.
Some 90 French leaders arrive in Havana on a direct Cubana airlines flight
from Paris to attend May Day celebrations.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez discusses bilateral relations with Michel Charase
and Bernard Garcia, advisers to French President Mitterrand and Prime
Minister Pierre Mauroy during meetings in Havana.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez addresses French newsmen in Havana saying
that "solutions to the' problems in Central America would be easier to find
without Washington's manipulations."
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez tells French newsmen' that Fidel Castro's Europe-
an tour has been indefinitely postponed because of the controversy in Cuba
over the sentencing of trade unionists.
Flavio Bravo receives a delegation of French senators and deputies who
arrived in Havana on 30 April at the.invitation of the National Assembly.
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May 19 Cuban dissident poet Armando Valladares, who arrived in Paris last
October after spending 22 years in Cuban jails, says he has been
threatened by the Cuban Embassy in Paris.
May 20
French Minister of Transportation Charles Fiterman arrives in Cuba on an
official visit aboard the Cubana de Aviacion flight that officially inaugu-
rated the Havana-Paris-Havana route.
May 23 Foreign Minister Malmierca departs Paris for New York to participate in
the UN Security Council's special meeting in Namibia.
May 24
Guillermo Garcia receives Charles Fiterman, French Minister of Transpor-
tation and briefs him on the development and future of transportation in
Cuba,. especially urban transport.
Fidel Castro has a one-hour meeting with French Minister of Transporta-
tion Charles Fiterman and his delegation.
French Minister of Transportation. Charles Fiterman, during a press
conference in Havana, discusses specific areas in the field of transport in
which France will cooperate with Cuba.
June 8 Cuba's permanent representative to UNESCO Alfredo Guevara says that
Cuba has backed the 12th UNESCO program on the elimination of
prejudice, intolerance, racism, and apartheid in meetings in Paris.
June 16
August 4
August 5
French President Mitterrand receives Alberto Boza Hidalgo-gato, Cuba's
new Ambassador to France.
Foreign Minister Malmierca greets Claude Cheysson, French Minister of
External Relations, upon his arrival in Havana.
Claude Cheysson, after delivering a message from French President
Mitterrand to Fidel Castro, discusses the international situation, especially
Central America, and bilateral relations.
French Minister of. External Relations Claude Cheysson attends a dinner
hosted by Foreign Minister Malmierca; official talks begin between the
two leaders.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Claude Cheysson meet in Havana.
August 6 Cheysson, in a press conference in Havana, stresses that France approves
the Cancun Declaration and that the only sensible way to solve the
problems in Central America is through dialogue.
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Fidel Castro tells French journalists in Havana that despite the "positive"
work of the Contadora Group, "the need" to solve the problems of El
Salvador "has not been clearly defined."
In his press conference in Havana Claude Cheysson announces that
agreements between France and Cuba are about to be concluded for the in-
stallation of a paper factory and a plant to produce vaccines.
Isidoro Malmierca and Claude Cheysson tour Old Havana and after the
tour Cheysson meets with Culture Minister Armando Hart.
Fidel Castro holds a reception for Claude Cheysson. Fidel Castro, Isidoro
Malmierca, and Carlos Rafael Rodriguez bid farewell to Cheysson at the
airport.
August 11 Prensa Latina publishes the full text of talks between Fidel Castro and
French journalists, in which Castro places full responsibility for the tense
situation in Central America on the US.
September 27 Paris press announces that Cuban dissident academic Tomas Bofill has
been missing from his home in Havana since 24 September.
September 29 Paris press announces that Cuba has arrested the former vice rector of the
University of Havana, Ricardo Bofill, after promising France that the anti-
Castro dissident would be left alone.
Fidel Castro and French Ambassador to Cuba Pierre Decamps discuss
French journalists Nasplezes and Delourme as well as Cuban dissident
Ricardo Bofill, whom Fidel refuses to free.
October 1 French journalists Dominique Nasplezes and Renaud Delourme are ex-
pelled from Cuba for contacting Cuban dissident Ricardo Bofill, who is
being held by Cuban authorities.
October 7 Paris press reports that Cuban dissident Ricardo Bofill is in critical
condition two weeks after his arrest in Havana on 24 September; he is in a
hospital, reportedly on a hunger strike.
October 18 Hector Rodriguez Llompart opens the seventh meeting of the Joint Cuban-
French Economic and Industrial Commission in Paris.
October 22 Minister President of the State Committee for Economic Cooperation
Hector Rodriguez Llompart and French Foreign Trade Minister Edith
Chesson meet in Paris to seek new forms of cooperation.
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November 1
Minister of Culture Armando Hart departs for Paris to attend the 22nd
UNESCO General Conference.
Minister of Culture Armando Hart, speaking before the 22nd session of
UNESCO's General Conference in Paris, demands an immediate end to
the US intervention in Grenada.
Secretariat member Lionel Soto meets in Paris with Andre Lajoinie,
member of the Political Bureau of the French Communist Party, to discuss
international problems, especially Grenada.
December 24 Georges Marchais, Secretary General of the French Communist Party,
arrives in Havana.
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February 9 Dieter Lemke, GDR Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade and Cuban Vice
Minister of Foreign Trade Jose de la Fuente sign a protocol in Havana that
will increase trade between the two countries.
February 19-25 President of the Central Planning Board Humberto Perez visits Berlin; he
meets with GDR Ministers Wolfgang Mitzinger and Horst Wambutt.
February 23 President of the Central Planning Board Humberto Perez and his delega-
tion attend the opening of the 30th CEMA meeting on cooperation in the
field of planning in Berlin.
February 25 Vilma Espin welcomes a GDR delegation headed by Margarete Mueller,
candidate member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany Politburo.
March 5 Raul Castro holds talks in Havana with Margarete Mueller, candidate
member of Germany's Socialist Unity Party Politbuto and member of the
GDR Council of State.
March 12 Fidel Castro and Erich Honecker, after discussing bilateral relations and
other matters of mutual interests, issue a joint communique condemning
US aggression.
March 12-13 Fidel Castro, Juan Almeida, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, and Jorge Risquet
lead a delegation visiting East Germany.
March 13 Fidel Castro and GDR leader Erich Honecker discuss bilateral relations
.and the recent Nonaligned Summit Meeting, and they tour the Cuban
pavillion at the Leipzig Fair.
March 14 Fidel Castro and Erich Honecker issue a joint communique in Berlin
expressing their profound concern on the threat of a nuclear war.
April 1 Cuba and the GDR sign, in Havana, a health cooperation agreement
effective to 1985 which provides for the exchange of scientific literature,
medical assistance, and scholarships.
April 7 Juan Almeida discusses bilateral relations and the international situation
with Erich Mueckenberger, chairman of the Central Party Control
Commission of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
April 9 Politburo alternate member Montane arrives in Berlin heading a delega-
tion that will participate in the scientific conference on Karl Marx,
scheduled to begin on 11 April.
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April 13 Jesus Montane and Alfred Neumann, member of Germany's Socialist
Unity Party Politburo hold talks in Berlin.
May 13 Fidel Castro stresses the high standard of relations between Cuba and the
GDR at a farewell visit by the GDR ambassador, Dr. Harry Spindler, in
Havana.
Deputy Chairman of the GDR Council of Ministers Gerhard Weiss
receives Luis Perdomo Hernandez, First Deputy Minister of the Food
Industry to discuss bilateral cooperation.
GDR official Gerard Weiss meets in Berlin with Daniel Legrand Lopez,
President of the Cuban National Institute of Automated Systems and
Computer Technology to discuss cooperation.
President of the National Association of Small Farmers Jose Ramirez
Cruz arrives in Berlin and will visit an exposition on advanced agriculture
in Markkleeberg.
General Senen Casas Regueiro arrives in East Germany and attends a
working meeting headed by Colonel General Heinz Kessler, Deputy
Defense Minister of.the GDR.
Foreign Minister Malmierca and his East German counterpart meet in
Havana and agree that everything possible must be done "to stop the
continuing destruction of the international situation."
July 1. Division General Senen Casas holds friendly talks with Army General
Heinz Hoffmann, Minister of National Defense, in East Germany.
July 8
July .12
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives Gerhard Briksa, GDR Minister of Trade
and Supply. Briksa reviewed the bilateral agreement and prospects for
future trade while visiting Cuba.
Hector Rodriguez Llompart and GDR Minister of Trade and Supply
Gerhard Briksa sign documents related to cooperation in construction of
the Ciego de Avila citrus complex.
Minister of Domestic Trade Manuel Vila Sosa and his German counter-
part Gerhard Briksa sign a trade protocol for 1984-85 and a document
covering scientific-technical cooperation.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez is decorated with the Order of the Star of
Friendship Among Peoples on his 70th birthday, "showing'once again the
inseparable ties between Cuba and the GDR."
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July 18 . Vice President of the Cuban Council of Ministers Joel Domenech meets in
Berlin with his GDR counterpart, Wolfgang Rauchfuss.
July 21 Heinz Klopher, member of the GDR Council of Ministers receives Rene
Pombo, Deputy Chairman of the Central Planning Commission to discuss
economic cooperation and increasing commodity exchange.
July 26 East German leaders Erich Honecker and Willi Stoph send messages of
congratulations to Fidel Castro on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of
the-attack on the Moncada Barracks.
July 28 East German official Guenter Mittag presents Fidel Castro with a bust of
Karl Marx as the official present from the GDR on the occasion of the'
30th Anniversary of the Revolution.
GDR officials Guenter Mittag and Oskar Fischer meet in Havana with
Fidel Castro, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, and Isidoro Malmierca. Mittag
conveys greetings from Erich Honecker to Fidel Castro.
July 29 Granma announces that Heinz Langer -presented his credentials on 28 June
to Carlos Rafael Rodriguez accrediting him as the new ambassador from
East Germany.
August 14-21 Methodist Church members from the US, Africa, GDR, and Latin
America, invited by their Cuban counterparts, visit Cuba to commemorate
the 100th anniversary of the founding of their church.
August 22 Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in East Berlin; he discusses the
international situation, especially Central America and the Caribbean and
bilateral relations with his counterpart.
East German'Politburo member Werner Felfe explains to a study delega-
tion, headed by Julian Rizo Alvarez, the SED's experience with intensify-
ing agricultural production and increasing efficiency.
August 23 Foreign Minister Malmierca and GDR Foreign Minister Oskar Fischer
meet in East Gerlin.
August 25 Central Committee member Julian Rizo Alvarez visits the agro-industrial
center in Neu-Brandenburg Bezirk and meets Margarete Mueller, candi-
date member of the SED Central Committee Politburo.
September 9 Politburo alternate member Jose Ramirez Cruz receives Manfred Scheler,
first secretary of the GDR Peasant Mutual Assistance Union who will visit
historic sites and agricultural cooperatives.
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October 17
October, 19
Vice President of the Council of State Juan Almeida receives Mr. Joachim
Kamptman who presents his credentials as ambassador to Cuba from the
Federal Republic of Germany.
First Vice Minister of Public Health Julio Tejas concludes a visit to the
GDR where he studied the health organization and prospects for expand-
ing bilateral cooperation.
Politburo members Jose Machado and Jose. Ramirez Cruz meet with the
delegaton of the GDR Peasant Mutual Assistance Union led by First
Secretary Manfred Scheler to discuss cooperation.
First Secretary of the GDR Peasant Mutual Assistance Union Manfred
Scheler and Jose Ramirez Cruz sign an agreement for cooperation in the
development of cadres and expansion of relations.
Fidel Castro sends a message of greetings to Erich Honecker, SED Central
Committee general secretary and Willi Stoph, Chairman of the GDR
Council of Ministers on the GDR national holidary.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez arrives in East Berlin to participate in the 37th
Session of the CEMA.
In a speech at the 37th CEMA Meeting in East Germany, Carlos Rafael
Rodriguez speaks about the tense world political situation and the hard line
of the Reagan administration. .
October 25 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez signs a memorandum in Berlin which ratifies
agreements on the continuation of cooperation-in various economic spheres
and approves steps for the increase of trade.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and GDR Prime Minister Willi Stoph meet in
Berlin to discuss economic cooperation and the international situation.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Paul Verner, member of Germany's Socialist
Unity Party Politburo discuss, in Berlin, the situation in Grenada and that
the US invasion will meet with rejection.. .
November 2 GDR Minister of Public Education Margot Honecker addresses the fifth
conference of public education ministers in Havana and condemns US
aggression against Grenada. .
November 23. During meetings in Berlin, Deputy Chairman Gunther Kleiber and
Minister of the Food,Industry Roca declare that bilateral economic
relations are developing dynamically and beneficially.
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December 23 Vice Foreign Trade Minister Jose de la Fuente and his East German.
counterpart Dieter Lemke sign a trade protocol that will exceed 400
million rubles in 1984, 10 percent above 1983 levels.
December 30 Raul Castro tours the east-central province of Camaguey, bringing
greetings from Fidel and praising the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, and East
Germany for their part in Cuban development.
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April 28 Foreign Minister .Malmierca arrives.in Bonn enroute to New Delhi; he
May 2
May 17
May 19
May 20
discusses bilateral relations and international policy with Foreign Minister
Hans-Dietrich Genscher.
Foreign Minister Malmierca, in Bonn, discusses Central America and
southern Africa with his West German counterpart Hans-Dietrich
Genscher, who says Cuba should withdraw its troops from Angola.
In a speech in Bonn, Ricardo Alarcon says that Cuba is willing to
contribute to the normalization of relations with the US if the US radically
modifies its economic blockade policy.
In a press interview in Bonn, Ricardo Alarcon says the Cuban Government
has faith in the efforts of the "Contadora Group" to secure peace in
Central America.
Ricardo Alarcon attends a seminar, "Cuba in the 80's," in Bonn. He
discusses the situation in Central America and broadening bilateral
relations with Vice Foreign Minister Juergen Moellemann.
Fidel Castro, Jesus Montane, and Manuel Pineiro meet in Havana with
Hans-Juergen Wischnewski, FRG Social Democratic Party member to
discuss the international situation, especially Central America.
Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Ricardo Alarcon meets in Bonn with a
senior official of the FRG Foreign Ministry Horst Telchik to discuss
international political issues and bilateral topics.
June 22 Jesus Montane welcomes Horst Schmidt, Secretary General of the West
Berlin Socialist Unity Party at Jose Marti Airport.
Fidel Castro and Jesus Montane receive Horst Schmidt, president of the
West Berlin's Socialist Unity Party to discuss bilateral relations and the in-
ternational situation.
September 13 Juan Almeida and Isidoro Malmierca receive the credentials of Joachim
Kampmann as the new West German ambassador to Cuba.
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February 10 Vice President of the Council of State Juan Almeida receives Goza
Magohti who presents his credentials as ambassador of Ghana.
April 5 Accra Domestic Service reports that a three-man Cuban delegation,
headed by Felipe Soares, departs Ghana after concluding a protocol
agreement to exchange information and films.
May 3 During his visit to Austria, Hector Rodriguez Llompart meets with
Austrian officials Edauranan Kane and Ferdninand Lacina.
May 30 Minister President of the Central Planning Board Hector Rodriguez ,.
Llompart greets Ghanian official Paul V. Obeng at Jose Marti Airport.
The first session of cooperation talks begin.
Commander of the Revolution Guillermo Garcia Frias and Paul Obeng,
Coordinating Secretary of the Council of Ministers of Ghana discuss
transportation in Cuba, especially air transport.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Paul V. Obeng, Ghana's Defense Council
official discuss international issues and review prospects for economic,
scientific, and technical cooperation in Havana.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Paul V. Obeng, Coordinating Secretary of
the Council of Ministers of Ghana discuss international issues and review
economic, scientific, and technical cooperation.
Minister of Transportation Guillermo Garcia Frias and Ghanian official
Paul Obeng sign a 5-year agreement in the field of merchant marine
transportation.
September 1 Accra Domestic Service reports that 195 Ghanaians from various institu-
tions in the country have left to study in Cuba.
September 10 Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane greets a delegation headed by
Kojo Tsikata, special advisor to Ghanaian leader Lt. Jerry Rawlings, at
Jose Marti International Airport.
September 14 Foreign Minister Malmierca discusses the international situation and
topics concerning the development of relations with Ghanaian official Kojo
Tsikata.
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September 15 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, Isidoro Malmierca, and Jesus Montane discuss
the international situation and aspects of interest to the two countries with
Ghana's official Kojo Tsikata.
September 17 Fidel Castro expresses solidarity with Ghana's revolutionary process and
discusses bilateral relations and other matters of mutual interest with
Ghanaian official Kojo Tsikata.
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November 28
Kojo Tsikata of Ghana delivers a message to Fidel Castro from Air Force
Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings, Chairman of the Provisional National Defense
Council.
Deputy Foreign Minister Oscar Oramas visits Accra and meets with
Chairman of the Provisional National Defense Council, Flight Lieutenant
Jerry Rawlings.
Deputy Foreign Minister Oscar Oramas, while meeting with newsmen in
Accra, calls on progressive forces throughout the world to unite in the fight
against imperialist domination.
The Ghana-Cuba Friendship Association condemns US continued criminal
actions in Central and South America during a statement marking the
16th anniversary of the death of Che Guevara.
A group of 24 Cuban technical experts arrive in Accra to give technical as-
sistance in various projects signed under the Ghana-Cuba joint commission
for cooperation.
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February 4 Cuban Ambassador to Greece Mirta Alfonso meets with Ioanis'Alebra`s`-
President of the Greek Parliament to discuss bilateral relations.
June 9 Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Jorge Bolanos and Greek Deputy
Foreign Minister loannis Kapsis sign the first Greece-Cuba cultural
agreement, in education, in Athens.
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January 6 Grenada receives 23 of the 40 tractors, together with accessories and spare
parts, that Cuba had promised as part of their agricultural cooperation
agreement.
January 12 Havana press announces that a 263 metric ton cargo from Cuba has been
delivered to St. George's, Grenada, by a merchant ship that is continuing
on to Africa.
March 5 Fidel Castro and his delegation, traveling from Havana to New Delhi to at-
tend the 7th Nonaligned Summit Meeting, are accompanied by Grenada's
Prime Minister Bishop and Suriname's strongman Bouterse.
March 10 Central Committee member Pedro Guelmes Gonzalez expresses Cuban
solidarity with Grenada during a ceremony in Mariel commemorating the
fourth anniversary of the Grenadian revolution.
March 15 Fidel Castro sends a message to the Grenadian Government on the fourth
anniversary of its revolution to express Cuba's support and solidarity.
March 16 Grenadian Foreign Minister Unison Whiteman arrives in Havana from
New Delhi.
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July 27
Prime Minister Maurice Bishop of Grenada arrives in Holguin leading a
high-level delegation. First Secretary of the party in Holguin Province
Miguel Cano Blanco welcomes him.
Fidel Castro, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, Nicaraguan Minister Ruiz, and
Grenadian Prime Minister Bishop attend the ceremony in which Fidel
Castro dedicates the Santiago Textile Complex.
Fidel Castro and Humberto Miguel, first secretary of the provincial party
in Cienfuegos, accompany Maurice Bishop to construction sites of the
nuclear power plant and new refinery in Cienfuegos.
Fidel and Raul Castro, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, Armando Hart, and
Osmani Cienfuegos attend a reception in Havana in honor of Maurice
Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada.
October 12 The Cuban Embassy in Grenada reports that Maurice Bishop has been
removed from his post in the Central Committee and has been placed
under house arrest.
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Cuba instructs its representatives in Grenada to refrain totally from
becoming involved in the internal affairs of the ruling party in Grenada.
The Cuban embassy in Grenada and Maurice Bishop report to Havana
that deep divisions have developed within the Central Committee of the
New Jewel Movement in Grenada.
October 15 Fidel Castro sends a message to the Central Committee of Grenada's New
Jewel Movement expressing Cuba's intention to abstain from involvement
in the internal affairs of the party and country.
October 19 Havana announces the deaths of Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of
Grenada, three of his cabinet ministers, and two union leaders.
October 22 Fidel Castro tells Cuban representatives in Grenada that planning to
evacuate Cuban personnel from the island when US forces were approach-
ing would be demoralizing and dishonorable.
Fidel Castro tells Cuban representatives in Grenada that if US forces land
to evacuate their citizens, Cuban personnel should refrain from interfering;
Fidel Castro also tells the Cuban representatives in Grenada that if the US
intervenes, "we must vigorously defend ourselves as if we were in Cuba,
but only if we are directly attacked."
Cuba sends a message through the US Interests Section in Havana to
inform Washington of Cuba's determination to not interfere in the internal
affairs of Grenada.
Havana press announces that a US naval force, composed of the aircraft
carrier Independence and other warships and carrying some 2,000 Ma-
rines, is heading toward Grenada.
October 23 Fidel Castro sends a message to the Cuban Embassy in Grenada saying
that Cuba cannot send reinforcement to Grenada.
October 24 Cuba transmits the following points to Grenada: Cuban personnel will
defend the positions in which they find themselves, and the American
University should be under the custody of Grenada.
October 25 Havana International Service reports that Grenada is being invaded by US
troops, and CBS notes that the US forces are accompanied by troops from
Jamaica, Antigua, Barbados, and St. Vincent.
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The US Government, through the US Interests Section in Havana, sends a
message saying that "Cuban personnel stationed in Grenada are not the
target of US troop action there."
Prensa Latina reports that Fidel Castro urged the Cubans on Grenada to
avoid surrender "under any conditions," and that the Castro Government
had formally requested the US to end the operations.
Radio Havana reports that Cuban,workers on Grenada "are resisting
heroically the attacks of the US Army and Navy," and that they have suf-
fered casualties.
Nicaragua requests an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council to
discuss the situation in Grenada, while Cuban Ambassador Raul Roa
Kouri condemns "the US imperialist government."
Havana press reports that Colonel Tortolo, in command of a group of
Cuban construction workers resisting the US-led forces on Grenada, has
been ordered not to surrender. -
Havana press reports on a Government communique announcing that
Colonel Pedro Tortolo Comas arrived in Grenada on 24 October on a
working visit.
Prensa Latina reports that American troops in the multinational force
invading Grenada were attacking camps and work sites of Cubans
stationed there to help build a new airport.
In an interview broadcast in Britain, Jamaican Prime Minister Edward
Seaga says that twelve Cuban soldiers were killed opposing the US-led
invasion of Grenada.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Paul Verner, member of Germany's Socialist
Unity Party Politburo discuss, in Berlin, the situation in Grenada and that
the US invasion will meet with rejection..
Deputy Foreign Minister Alarcon, in a reply to foreign newsmen in
Havana, says the US reported its invasion of Grenada after the attack
begun and that it was a "cunning" surprise attack.
October 26 The Cuban Government announces that the last Cuban resistance on
Grenada against the US-led intervention has ended.
Fidel Castro holds a press conference on events in Grenada; he says he
would not send any reinforcements to back up the Cubans in Grenada.
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In his press conference, Fidel Castro condemned the invasion of Grenada
as an "enormous political error" and called the US to halt its attack on the
island.
Minister of Culture Armando Hart, speaking before the 22nd session of
UNESCO's General Conference in Paris, demands an immediate end to
the US intervention in Grenada.
Fidel Castro sends a personal message to Indira Gandhi concerning the US
invasion of Grenada and the dangerous situation in Central America and
the Caribbean.
October 27 Havana accepts offers from Spain and Colombia to airlift the approximate-
ly 600 Cubans on Grenada back to Cuba or to Barbados.
Havana press reports of demonstrations throughout Cuba protesting US
aggression in Grenada and of admiration of the Cuban construction
workers and collaborators in Grenada.
Prensa Latina reports that US residents in Cuba condemned the US
intervention in Grenada and demanded that Washington withdraw its
troops from the eastern Caribbean island.
The Cuban Embassy in Grenada reports that 600 Cuban workers and
collaborators in Grenada are alive; this figure includes some wounded.
The Cuban Government announces that the number of Cubans killed in
Grenada is believed to be well under 100.
There were demonstrations against the US aggression in Grenada in all the
provinces, municipalities, and student and labor organizations in Cuba,
according to reports from Havana.
October 28 At a press conference in Stockholm, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez says the
invasion of Grenada by the US has increased the danger of similar action
by the US in Central America.
In a TV interview in Cuba, Ricardo Alarcon calls President Reagan a
"liar" for saying Cuba had established a military base on Grenada with
warehouses crammed with weapons.
In Stockholm, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez also says that Cuba had only 44
military advisers and some 700 Cubans involved in cooperation projects in
Grenada and no Cuban arms caches.
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Cuba denies President Reagan's charge that Cuba was building a big
military complex on Grenada.
In his TV interview Ricardo Alarcon says "the total figure of Cubans on
Grenada, including diplomatic personnel, is below 800.
Minister of Culture Armando Hart arrives in Rome to open a study
seminar on Jose Marti; he says the Reagan administration committed a
"political error," in Grenada.
Chairman of the Provisional Military Administrative Council Mengistu
Haile Mariam sends a condolence letter to Fidel Castro over the deaths of
the Cubans in Grenada and condemns US aggression.
Congolese Foreign Minister Pierre Nze meets with the press before he
departs Havana to condemn the US invasion of Grenada.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez delivers a message from Fidel Castro to Swedish
Prime Minister Olof Palme thanking him for his criticism of the US
invasion of Grenada; they discuss the Cuban economy.
October 29 The Cuban Government demands "the rapid return" of Cuban prisoners,
dead, and wounded from Grenada and accuses the US of using blackmail
in repatriation efforts.
Guyana's Minister of Health Richard Van West-Charles arrives in
Havana; in a TV statement he condemns the US invasion of Grenada.
The Cuban Government issues a statement of Cubans in Grenada as 784,
including 44 women.
The Trinidad and Tobago Government grants permission for the "Vietnam
Heroico" to berth for water and stores in preparation for the repatriation of
Cubans from Grenada.
October 30 In transit in Madrid, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez is interviewed by El Pais; he
stresses that the total number of Cubans on Grenada when the US invasion
took place never reached the amount of 800.
Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos expresses "militant solidarity
with the people of Cuba" over the US-led invasion of Grenada, according
to the Angolan News Agency.
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October 31 Fidel Castro orders the militia in Havana to mobilize for a massive rally to
honor the Cuban dead and wounded returning from the fighting on
Grenada.
November 1 Deputy Foreign Minister Alarcon announces that the Governor General of
Grenada, Paul Scoon, has ordered all Cuban diplomatic personnel off the
island by 2 November.
The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union delegation visiting Cuba and
Cuba release a communique condemning the Reagan administration's
invasion of Grenada. The delegation departs for Nicaragua.
Deputy Foreign Minister Alarcon announces that US troops had surround-
ed the Cuban embassy in Grenada and that Cuba will make the US
responsible for the safety of the diplomats and embassy.
Secretariat member Lionel Soto meets in Paris with Andre Lajoinie,
member of the Political Bureau of the French Communist Party, to discuss
international problems, especially Grenada.
November 2 Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, and Sergio del Valle greet 57 returning Cuban
wounded and 10 physicians captured by the multinational force during the
fighting in Grenada.
Fidel Castro tells Colombian President Betancur that the US has virtually
turned the Cuban diplomats in Grenada into hostages by refusing them
permission to leave the country.
Foreign Minister Malmierca asks UN Secretary General de Cuellar to
prevent the ultimatum given by Paul Scoon, Governor General of Grenada
that Cuban diplomats leave Grenada within 24 hours.
Pedro Nunez Mosquera, Cuban delegate at the UN Disarmament Com-
mittee meeting denounces the US for invading Grenada.
GDR Minister of Public Education Margot Honecker addresses the fifth.
conference of public education ministers in Havana and condemns US
aggression against Grenada.
November 3 Sanchez Parodi, Chief of the Cuban Interests Section in Washington,
rejects US charges that Cuba is preparing terrorist attacks against US
diplomats in reprisal for US intervention in Grenada.
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Phoun Sipaseut, Foreign Minister of Laos receives Vice Foreign Minister
Pelegrin Torras; they discuss events in Central America and the Caribbe-
an, especially Grenada.
November 4 Central Committee member Garcia Frias condemns US aggression in
Grenada in his speech at the main national event commemorating the 66th
anniversary of the October Revolution in Havana.
TASS reports that Soviet citizens and citizens from other socialist
countries, in Grenada when the US invaded, have arrived in Cuba.
November 5 Fidel and Raul Castro greet a new group of 149 Cubans, including women
and children who were taken prisoner during the fighting in Grenada.
Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Pelegrin Torras arrives in Phnom Penh;
he meets with Foreign Ministry official Hun Sen to discuss Central
America and the Caribbean and US aggression in Grenada.
November 6 Fidel Castro and other leaders of the Communist Party greet 51 Cuban
prisoners from Grenada.
November 7 Another 100 builders arrive from Grenada and are greeted by Fidel and
Raul Castro. 617 Cuban builders and collaborators have returned from
Grenada so far.
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November 8 The last Cuban prisoners under the control of US forces in Grenada-12
men and 9 women (including 1 Grenadian), and 3 children arrive in
Havana, raising the number of repatriates to 730.
November 10 Havana press reports that 755 Cubans have returned from Grenada, two
diplomats remain in St. George's, and two wounded Cubans are receiving
medical attention in Puerto Rico.
Havana press announces that 24 Cubans died in Grenada, and that the ex-
humation of bodies of those killed in combat began on 9 November.
Expelled Cuban Ambassador to Grenada Julian Torres Rizo accompanies
25 Cubans, whose freedom of movement had been restricted on Grenada,
to Havana; Fidel welcomes the group.
November 13 Cuba's Council of State issues a decree proclaiming 15-17 November as
national days of mourning for the Cubans who "perished heroically" in
Grenada.
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The bodies of the 24 Cubans killed in combat in Grenada arrive in Havana.
Fidel and Raul Castro and the highest ranking authorities of the Commu-
nist nist Party of Cuba are present at the airport.
November 14 Fidel Castro condemns the US in a speech during the national mourning
service for Cubans who died in Grenada at the Jose Marti Monument at
Havana's Plaza de la Revolucion.
During his speech at the national mourning service, Fidel Castro says that
Bernard Coard's group destroyed the revolution and opened the doors to
imperialist aggression in Grenada.
November 15 Funeral services are held in Holguin for 13 Grenadians whose bodies were
sent to Cuba with those of the Cuban collaborators. Raul Castro, Vilma
Espin, and Div. Gen. Senen Casas attend; Raul speaks.
After the funeral service in Holguin, the bodies of the 13 Grenadian
combatants are returned to Grenada via Barbados; Raul Castro accompa-
nies them to the airport.
November 16 Fidel and Raul Castro greet the two Cubans wounded in Grenada and
hospitalized in Puerto Rico upon their return to Cuba.
December 16
Top party and government leaders of the Mongolian People's Republic
have sent a message to Fidel Castro expressing their deep grief for the Cu-
ban's killed in Grenada.
Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs says the Ameri-
can-led invasion of Grenada was "to a certain degree a humiliation" for
Cuba.
December 21 Fidel Castro attends the Second session of the National Assembly of the
People's Government. Flavio Bravo honors the martyrs of Grenada.
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August 9 Central Committee member Jose Alvarez Bravo says the coup d'etat in
Guatemala will not affect peace negotiations in Central America.
August 13 Granma accuses the US of "spending two months preparing the military
coup that brought General Oscar Humberto Mejia Victores to power" in
Guatemala.
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May 16. Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives the credentials of Mamadou Cangoura,
ambassador of Guinea:
May 19 A. cooperation protocol in the fields of health, agriculture, fisheries,
construction, and higher education is signed in Havana at the conclusion of
the fourth Cuban-Guinea Intergovernment Meeting.
July 25 Raul Castro discusses the international .situation and bilateral interests
with General Lansana Diane, Minister of the People's Army of Guinea.
December 13 Granma announces that the Council of State has named Alberto Suarez
Ortega as the Cuban Ambassador to Guinea.
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February 11 Former Guinea-Bissau President Luis Cabral, exiled in Cuba for the past
13 months, is scheduled to leave for Cape Verde Island next week.
March 1 Former Guinea-Bissau head of state Luis Cabral arrives in Cape Verde
after 14 months of exile in Cuba.
July 21 Guinea-Bissau Prime Minister Victor Saude Maria departs for Cuba to
represent his government at. the 30th Anniversary celebration of the
Revolution.
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Havana press announces that a third contingent of 228 sixth-year medical
students will soon go abroad to spend two years in Nicaragua, Guinea-
Bissau, and Ethiopia.
Politburo alternate members Perez and Montane and Pascal Alves,
Ambassador of Guinea-Bissau preside at a ceremony in Havana marking
the 10th anniversary of Guinea-Bissau's independence.
Fidel Castro, Jesus Montane, Ramiro Valdes, Osmani Cienfuegos, Guil-
lermo Garcia, and Vilma Espin greet the President of Guinea-Bissau, Joao
Bernardo Vieira, and wife at Jose Marti Airport.
Fidel Castro bids farewell to Guinea-Bissau's President Joao Bernardo
Vieira at Jose Marti Airport.
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Guyana
Cuba and Guyana sign a new cooperation agreement for 1983 in scientific-
technical, educational and cultural cooperation during intergovernmental
meetings in' Georgetown.
Minister of Iron and Steel Works Marcos Lage participates in the eighth
meeting of the Guyana-Cuba Joint Commission meetings in Georgetown
stressing joint cooperation between Cuba and Guyana.
The Cuban Council of State appoints Lazaro Cabezas Gonzalez new
Ambassador to Guyana.
Cuban scientists Patricia Sierra and Silvio Montalvo visit Guyana. As a
result of talks, two Guyanese will be sent to Cuba to train in tobacco
cultivation and another to the point factories.
August 19 Central Committee member Pedro Fernandez discusses Central America
and the Caribbean status quo and bilateral cooperation with Guyanese
President Burnham in Guyana.
Central Committee member Pedro Fernandez attends the fifth biennial
congress of the ruling People's National Congress in Guyana.
October 13 Havana press charges US authorities with attempting to hide the truth
about the participation of the CIA in the deaths in Guyana in 1978 of
members of the People's Temple, a US religious sect.
October 21 A cooperation agreement is signed in Guyana between the Cuban Radio
and Television Institute and the Guyana Broadcasting Service.
October 29 Guyana's Minister of Health Richard Van West-Charles arrives in
Havana; in a TV statement he condemns the US invasion of Grenada.
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June 24, . Foreign Minister Malmierca accuses the US of installing a military base in
% Honduras while participating in the eighth seminar of Latin American
journalists in Havana from 11-20 June.
September; 15 The Cuban newspaper Granma accuses Honduran military strongman
Gustavo Alvarez of acting as an American puppet in Central America.
September 28 At the Mexican Senate, Flavio Bravo says the US should demonstrate with
actions that it supports the Contadora Group; a great gesture would be for
the US to withdraw troops from Honduras.
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Hungary
January 27- Hungarian youth leader Gyorgy Fejti and his delegation visit Cuba. They
February 3 tour Santiago de Cuba and the Isle of Youth and meet with Secretary of
the Central Committee Jose Machado Ventura.
February 28 National Assembly Vice President Jorge Lezcano arrives in Budapest to
attend the annual consultation meeting of socialist parliaments.
March 13 Foreign Minister Malmierca and Hungary's Minister of Foreign Affairs
Frigyes Puja sign a joint communique reflecting the close bonds of
friendship between the two countries.
March 13-15 Foreign Minister Malmierca visits Hungary and conveys greetings from
Fidel Castro to Hungarian leader Janos Kadar. They discuss cooperation
and inter-party and inter-state relations.
March 15 Foreign Minister Malmierca and Hungarian Premier of the Council of
Ministers Gyorgy Lazar discuss matters related to the international
situation and the development of bilateral relations.
March 29 Cuba and Hungary sign a scientific-technical cooperation agreement for
the remainder of the 5-year period during meetings in Havana.
April 18-22 Minister of the Steelworking Industry Marcos Lage visits Hungary. He
meets with Lajos Mehes, Minister of Industry to discuss the cooperation
agreement for the assembly of Ikarus buses.
May 17 Hungarian Attorney General Dr. Karoly Fekete arrives in Cuba to attend
meetings with his Cuban counterpart Idalberto L. Guevara Quintana.
June 21 Politburo Alternate member Montane attends the 16th Intercosmos Con-
gress in Hungary.
July 5 Vice President of the Cuban Council of Ministers Joel Domenech arrives in
Budapest to visit several Hungarian energy projects.
July 8 Vice President of the Council of Ministers Joel Domenech discusses the
rational use of energy with Lajos Mehes, member of the Hungarian
Socialist Workers Party Politburo and Minister of Industry.
August 10-13 Central Committee member Julian Rizo Alvarez visits Hungary; he meets
with Hungarian leaders Karoly Nemeth and Jeno Vancsa to discuss ties
that unite the two countries.
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September 6 Attorney General Idalberto Ladron de Guevara arrives in Hungary to
exchange experiences with his Hungarian colleagues.
September 8 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives the credentials of Istvan Bognar, Hun-
garian ambassador to Cuba.
September. 28 Division General Sixto Batista Santana departs Hungary after a working
visit of a few days. He met with Hungarian officials Peter Varga and Lt.
General Ferenc Karparti.
October 3.
December 1
Secretary General of the Agricultural and Forestry Workers Union Rene
Penalver heads a delegation to Hungary to attend the World Conference of
the International Union of agricultural workers.
Sandor Gaspar, member of the Hungarian Politburo discusses matters
pertaining to the views between the union movement and bilateral relations
with Cuban Ambassador Jose Antonio Tabares del Real.
December 31 Hungarian leader Janos Kadar sends Fidel Castro a message of congratu-
lations on the 25th anniversary of the revolution.
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India
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets in New Delhi with Foreign Minister
Narasimha Rao to deliver a message from Fidel Castro to President Singh
and to discuss bilateral relations.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez delivers a message from Fidel Castro to Indiri
Gandhi and they discuss various matters related to the seventh Nonaligned
Summit Meeting to be held in New Delhi.
Foreign Minister Malmierca, arriving in New Delhi to attend the Seventh
Summit Meeting of the Nonaligned countries, is met by Indian Foreign
Minister Narasimha Rao.
The Nonaligned Experts' meeting is held in New Delhi. Raul Roa Kouri
warns of the nuclear war danger threatening the world during the opening
session.
Fidel Castro and his delegation, traveling from Havana to New Delhi to at-
tend the 7th Nonaligned Summit Meeting, are accompanied by Grenada's
Prime Minister Bishop and Suriname's strongman Bouterse.
Fidel Castro sends a message to CPSU General Secretary Yuriy Andropov
as his plane flies over Moscow on his way to New Delhi.
March 7 Fidel Castro, addressing the Nonaligned Movement meeting in New Delhi,
accuses the US Administration of instructing the CIA to resume plans to
kill Cuban leaders.
Fidel Castro, head of the Nonaligned Movement since 1979, hands over
the leadership of the movement to Indiri Gandhi during the opening of the
7th Nonaligned Movement meeting in New Delhi.
March 14 In an interview in Granma, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez describes Fidel
Castro's role in New Delhi as "extraordinary" and states that Fidel had
talks with more than 40 chiefs of state or government.
April 29 Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in New Delhi to attend a limited
meeting of Nonaligned Movement foreign ministers.
September 29 Ario Rodriguez, Vice President of the Cuban Institute of Friendship With
Peoples met in Havana with Rasbudin Akham, President of the Indian-
Cuban Society of New Delhi.
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September 30 A Cuban Atomic Energy Commission delegation led by Executive Secre-
tary Fidel Castro Diaz Belart concludes a tour of India's nuclear installa-
tions in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
October 1 Executive Secretary of the Atomic Energy Commission Fidel Castro Diaz
Belart visits an atomic research center in Bombay, India.
October 26 Fidel Castro sends a personal message to Indira Gandhi concerning the US
invasion of Grenada and the dangerous situation in Central America and
the Caribbean.
November 18 Isidoro Malmierca delivers a message from Fidel Castro to Indian Prime
Minister Gandhi in which Fidel offers,his ideas about the situation in the
Middle East, Central America, and the Caribbean.
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July 29
Iran
Foreign Minister Malmierca meets in Havana with an Iranian delegation
led by Ahmad Azizi, First Vice Minister of Iran's Foreign Ministry, to
discuss bilateral relations.
Deputy Foreign Trade Minister Manuel Estefania, in meetings with
Iranian commercial, industrial, and agricultural officials, says that Cuban
sugar will be delivered to Iran soon.
Iranian Health Minister Hadi Manafi, heading an Iranian delegation,
leaves for Havana to inspect health centers.
Fidel Castro receives Muhammad Hamzah, member of the Arab Socialist
Ba'th Party Regional Command. Hamzah presents a detailed explanation
on the developments of the Iraqi-Iranian War.
.November 2 First Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq Taha Yasin Ramadan receives
Minister of Construction Abroad Levi Farah to review the developments of
the Iraq-Iran War.
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Iraq
July 29 Fidel Castro receives Muhammad Hamzah, member of the Arab Socialist
Ba'th Party Regional Command. Hamzah presents a detailed explanation
on the developments of the Iraqi-Iranian War.
September 8 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives the credentials of Sahen Husayn Ta'er,
Iraqi Ambassador to Cuba.
September 30 Granma announces that the Council of State has designated Hector
Argiles Perez as Cuban Ambassador to Iraq.
November 2 First Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq Taha Yasin Ramadan receives
Minister. of Construction Abroad Levi Farah to review the developments of
the Iraq-Iran War.
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Israel
April 13 Vice Foreign Minister Oscar Oramas heads the Cuban delegation to the
Central American regional conference on the Palestinian question in
Nicaragua; Oramas criticizes the US and Israel.
May 4 Eloy Valdes, Deputy Director of the Foreign Relations Department, and
Rodolfo Casale, editor of Granma, arrive for the first visit to Israel by a
Cuban delegation in 10 years.
May 10 The Cuban delegation visiting Israel says that Cuban-Israeli diplomatic
relations will be reestablished when Israel establishes normal relations with
other states in the region.
July 26 Syrian Prime Minister Abd ar-Ra'uf al-Kasm receives Levi Farah in
Damascus; they discuss the situation in the Middle East and the occupa-
tion of southern Lebanon by Israeli aggressors.
September 13 In a communique issued in Havana, the representatives of the PLO and the
FMLN and FDR fronts expressed their total rejection of the reopening of
the Israeli Embassy in the Salvadoran capital.
November 30 Speaking at the UN Special Political Committee, Cuban delegate Eumelio
Caballero condemns the economic, political, diplomatic, and military
support that the US is giving Israel.
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Italy
February 28 Minister of Culture Armando Hart arrives in Italy to participate in the
16th congress of the Italian. Communist Party.
March 4 Politburo member Armando Hart and his delegation depart for Bologna,
Italy to participate in a series of meetings and activities.
April 6 The Council of State designates Manuel Estevez Perez Ambassador to the
Sovereign and Military Order of the Knights Hospitaller of St. John of Je-
rusalem with residence in Rome.
May 19 Rene Rodriguez, President of the Cuban Institute of Friendship With
Peoples arrives in Italy.
President of the National Association of Small Farmers Jose Ramirez
Cruz and his Italian counterpart sign a communique in Italy to promote so-
cioeconomic, political, and cultural cooperation.
October 28 Minister of Culture Armando Hart arrives in Rome to open a study
seminar on Jose Marti; .he. says the Reagan administration committed a
"political error," in Grenada.
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March 18 Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Pelegrin Torras attacks the US position
on sea convention during a meeting in Jamaica.
May 25 The Miami Herald reports that about nine of the 29 Cubans being held in
Jamaica, who hijacked a boat 10 months ago to escape Cuba, may soon be
granted permanent residence in Canada.
July 14 Minister of Education Jose Ramon Fernandez makes the closing remarks
at the graduation ceremony for 1,478 University of Havana students.
Jamaica's People's National Party leader Manley attends.
October 25 Havana International Service reports that Grenada is being invaded by US
troops, and CBS notes that the US forces are accompanied by troops from
Jamaica, Antigua, Barbados, and St. Vincent.
In an interview broadcast in Britain, Jamaican Prime Minister Edward
Seaga says that twelve Cuban soldiers were killed opposing the US-led
invasion of Grenada.
November 1 President Seaga announces that Jamaica is expelling four Soviet diplomats
and a Cuban journalist for purportedly spying and conspiring to kill a
foreign ministry official.
Jamaican President Seaga announces to Parliament that the Kingston
bureau of the Cuban press agency Prensa Latina would be closed.
November 18 According to a press report in Kingston, Cuba has brought 60,000 tons of
wire rods from Trinidad's state-owned steel mill.
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Japan
May 26 Havana radio notes that the US has banned the import of Japanese
stainless steel goods containing Cuban nickel beginning 1 June.
August 1 Jesus Montane and Japan's Tornio Nishizawa, Vice President of the
Japanese Communist Party discuss matters of mutual interest and the
international situation during talks in Havana.
August 12 A delegation of Japanese congressmen, headed by Mrs. Takako Doi, is
visiting Cuba and meeting with leaders of the National Assembly of the
People's Government in Havana.
November 15 Tokyo press announces that Haruyuki Mabuchi, consul general in Chica-
go, will be the Japanese Ambassador to Cuba.
December 29 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Isidoro Malmierca receive the credentials of
Haruyuki Mabuchi as the new Japanese ambassador to Cuba.
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June 23 Raul Castro addresses his "most cordial and sincere greetings" in a'
message to Bou Thang, Kampuchean Minister of National Defense on the
32nd anniversary of the Revolutionary Army.
November 5 Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Pelegrin Torras arrives in Phnom Penh;
he meets with Foreign Ministry official Hun Sen to discuss Central
America and the Caribbean and US aggression in Grenada.
November 8 Chan Si, Politburo member of the KPRP Central Committee receives
Deputy Minister Pelegrin Torras; they consolidate the friendship and
cooperation between the two countries.
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Kenya
January 13 Juan Almeida-stopping over in Nairobi, Kenya, on his way to Mauritius
from Mali-discusses bilateral relations and the Nonaligned Movement
with government ministers Kamwithi and Afande.
At the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Juan Almeida
says Cuba rejects the US proposal linking the withdrawal of Cuban troops
from Angola with Namibian Independence.
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Korea, North
Foreign Trade Vice Minister Andres Yebra Garcia and Han su-Kil sign a
protocol for commercial exchange in 1983 between Cuba and the DPRK.
The Cuban delegation departs Pyongyang on 11 January.
Juan Jose Leon, alternate member of the Central Committee arrives in
Paris to participate in a meeting of the international liaison committee for
the peaceful reunification of Korea.
In a speech in Paris, Juan Jose Leon blames the US for the intensification
of tensions on the Korean Peninsula and reiterates Cuba's support and
solidarity with the just demands of the DPRK.
Vice President of the State Committee of Economic Cooperation Jose
Fernandez and Korean official Yi Yong-un sign a protocol, in Havana, of
the 8th meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee.
Minister of Public Health Sergio del Valle Jimenez and his Korean
counterpart Pak Myong-pin sign a plan on mutual cooperation in public
health and medical science for 1983-84 in Havana.
President of the State Committee for Standardization Ramon Darias
arrives in Pyongyang to participate in festivities marking the 30th anniver-
sary of Victory Day.
Raul Castro discusses the international situation and bilateral interests
with 0 Kuk-yol, Chief of the General Staff of the People's Army of Korea.
July 29 Fidel Castro and Jesus Montane meet with North Korean official 0 Kuk-
yol.
September 11 Chief of the Central Political Directorate of the Revolutionary Armed
Forces Sixto Batista Santana meets in Pyongyang with 0 Chin-u.
September 12 Chief of the Central Political Directorate of the Revolutionary Armed
Forces Sixto Batista Santana attends celebrations of the 35th anniversary
of the founding of Korea in Pyongyang.
September 26 The DPRK governmntal trade delegation headed by Vice Foreign Trade
Minister Han Su-kil departs for North Korea. During its visit to Cuba, the
delegation signed a protocol on 1984 trade.
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October 12 President of the Havana City Provincial People's Government Oscar
Fernandez Mell meets with a delegation of the People's Committee from
Pyongyang, headed by Paek Hak'yon, first vice president.
October 24 Cuba and Korea sign a trade protocol for 1984 in Havana. It was signed by
Vice Minister of Foreign Trade of Cuba Andres Yerba Garcia.
Vice Chairman Juan Jose Leon and a delegation from the National
Association of Small Farmers visit Phongyang;.they meet with leaders Kim
Yong-nam and Pak Yong-pae of the Agricultural Workers Union.
October 31 Ricardo Cabrizas meets with Yi Chong-ok, Premier of the Administration
Council of Pyongyang and his counterpart Choe Chong-kun in Pyongyang.
November 9 Education Minister Jose Ramon Fernandez receives his Korean counter-
part Hwang Sun-myong to discuss the education of the younger genera-
tions, productive work, and its educational elements.
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September 5 Prensa Latina claims the US is directly involved in the disappearance of
South Korean Airlines Flight 07.
October 4 At the UN, Foreign Minister Malmierca says that the Reagan Adminis-
tration used the shooting down of a South Korean airliner by the Soviets
last month to justify an arms buildup.
October 7 In a ceremony for the victims of the plane-crash in Barbados in 1976, Ri-
cardo Alarcon links that incident to the downing of the Korean plane on
7 September 1983-blaming the US.
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Kuwait
January. 11 Flavio Bravo states that his trip to Algeria served to strengthen relations
between the two nation's parliaments, government, and people. He departs
for Kuwait.
January 13., . Flavio Bravo discusses international issues and bilateral relations with
Muhammad al-Adasani, chairman of the Kuwaiti National Assembly.
March 2 . The, Council of State approves Jorge Morente Caballero as Cuban
ambassador to Kuwait. Morente Caballero was the acting Cuban Charge
d' Affaires in Kuwait.
October 12 Vice President of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television Orestes
Gispert and Kuwait's Minister of Information sign a cooperation agree-
ment in the information field.
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Laos
Laos leader Souphanouvong heads a delegation to Cuba to attend the 30th
Anniversary of the Revolution.
Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Pelegrin Torras arrives in Vientiane; he
discusses Central America and the Caribbean region with his counterpart
Souban Salitthilat.
Phoun Sipaseut, Foreign Minister of Laos receives Vice Foreign Minister
Pelegrin Torras; they discuss events in Central America and the Caribbe-
an, especially Grenada.
December 24 Luis Reyes Mass, Cuba's ambassador to Laos bids farewell to Nouhak
Phoumsavan, member of the LPRP Central Committee Political Bureau,
after his completion of his term of service.
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July 23 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives the credentials of Gilbert Ghazi accred-
iting him as the new ambassador from Lebanon.
July 26
Syrian Prime Minister Abd ar-Ra'uf al-Kasm receives Levi Farah in
Damascus; they discuss the situation in the Middle East and the occupa-
tion of southern Lebanon by Israeli aggressors.
September 2 Foreign Minister Malmierca meets with PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat at a
UN Conference in Geneva, where they discuss the Middle East, particular-
ly Lebanon, and bilateral relations.
Foreign Minister Malmierca meets with PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat at
the UN Conference on the Palestinian Issue in Geneva; they discuss the
Middle East, Lebanon and bilateral relations.
September 29 In a statement released in Havana, the AfroAsian-Latin American Peo-
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Lesotho
July 12
Minister of Education Jose Fernandez outlines the Cuban educational
process and training programs during a meeting in Havana with Likhoana
Jonathan, Vice President of the ruling party in Lesotho.
November 7 Fidel Castro sends a message of congratulations to Dr. Leabua Jonathan of
Lesotho on the occasion of the 17th anniversary of its independence.
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Libya
During a meeting of the UN Security Council, Raul Roa Kouri condemns
US aggression toward Libya and expresses unswerving solidarity with the
Libyan people.
The fifth session of the Cuban-Libyan Joint Commission opens in Havana,
presided over by Hector Rodriguez Llompart and Muhammad al-Man-
qush, Libyan Secretary of Housing.
Libya's secretary of housing and construction, Muhammad Ahmad al-
Manqush and Levi Farah meet in Havana. Al-Manqush expresses support
for Cuban cooperation in the construction field in Libya.
Foreign Minister Isidoro Malmierca and Hector Rodriquez Llompart and
Ahmad al-Manqush sign the first cooperation protocol for 1983-85 in the
economic, educational, and cultural fields.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Libya's al-Manqush discuss economic coop-
eration in the fields of construction, public health, education, maritime
transportation, and sports.
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Malaysia
May 12-16 Foreign Minister Malmierca visits Madagascar. He attends the third
meeting of the Joint Malagasy-Cuban Commission; the next meeting will
be held in Cuba in 1985.
May 16
Foreign Minister Malmierca discusses the present world situation with
Malagasy head of state Didier Ratsiraka. In a press conference, Mal-
mierca says that cooperation is developing successfully.
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January 6 Vice President of the Council of State Juan Almeida arrives in Mali and is
greeted at the airport by Amadou Bab Diarra, deputy secretary general of
the Democratic Union of Mali.
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January 11
Juan Almeida and Baba. Diarra hold talks in Mali and Almeida praises the
high level attained in relations between the two countries.
Juan Almeida delivers a message from Fidel Castro to Malian President
Moussa Traore, with whom he exchanges views on international relations
and the Nonaligned Movement.
October 23 Foreign Minister Malmierca receives his counterpart from Mali, Alioune
Blondin Beye, who will participate in the second session of the Cuba-Mali
Joint Commission for Economic Cooperation.
October 24 Maliian Foreign Minister Alioune Blondin Baye and Isidoro Malmierca
discuss bilateral relations and other matters of mutual interest in Havana.
November 11 A delegation from the Communist Party of Cuba, headed by Jose Tenoire,
arrives in Bamako to exchange views between the PCC and the Malian
People's Democratic Union.
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May 17 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives Fernando Espay y Cuenca Benette; who`
presents his credentials accrediting him as Ambassador to Malta.
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May 26. The first session of the Cuba-Mauritania Joint Commission for economic;'
scientific, and technical cooperation opens. in Havana.
May 30
Joaquin Benavides, Minister-President of the State Committee for Labor
and Social Security and Mauritania's Lt. Col. Diop Mostrapha sign a
cooperation agreement in health, fishing, and agro-industry.
December 12 The Council of State designates Claudio Ramos Borrego as Cuban
Ambassador to Mauritania.
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January 13 During a meeting with Prime Minister Anerud Jugnauth in Mauritius,
Juan Almeida indicates that the two countries are going to cooperate in
sugar production research.
Juan Almeida arrives in Mauritius and is welcomed by Prime Minister
Aneerood Jugnauth. During a ceremony Almeida notes that Cuba support
Mauritius' just demands on territorial integrity.
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January 7 Fidel Castro decorates the outstanding intellectuals Gabriel Garcia Mar-
quez of Colombia, Mario Benedetti of Uruguay and Pablo Casanova of
Mexico with the Felix Varela Order, first class.
January 11 Jose Luis Posada, representative of the Cuban Tourism Enterprise in the
Federal District of Mexico announces that Cuba will abolish tourist visas
for visitors from Mexico and Canada.
March 15 A delegation from Mexico's National Sugar Industry Commission, headed
by Mario Barreiro Perera, arrives in Havana to review and update the
current agreement on sugar industry cooperation.
March 22 The Mexican newspaper El Dia reports Malmierca's expression of Cuban
willingness to hold a dialogue with the US on the basis of "equality, mutual
respect, and regard for Cuban sovereignty."
March 25 In an interview in Mexico's El Dia, Isidoro Malmierca says that El
Salvador has a choice-the victory of the guerrillas-or a political way out
through negotiations.
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April 23
A delegation representing 12 Mexican manufacturing and trade companies
arrives in Cuba to promote the sale of their goods in meetings with Cuban
foreign trade officials.
Mexican Public Education Secretary Jesus Reyes Heroles arrives in
Havana for the sixth meeting of the Mexican-Cuban Joint Commission on
Education.
Education Minister Jose Ramon Fernandez and Mexico's Public Educa-
tion Secretary Jesus Reyes Heroles sign in Cuba a program of exchanges in
education and culture for 1983-85. .
Hector Rodriguez Llompart and the Director General of Mexico's Nation-
al Council of Science and Technology Hector Maya Goitia sign in Mexico
a scientific and technical agreement for 1983-84.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, Jose Ramon Fernandez, and Mexico's Education
Secretary Jesus Reyes Heroles discuss bilateral relations during a meeting
in Havana. Reyes visits the Lenin Vocational School.
Cuba's Central Planning Board (JUCEPLAN) and Mexico's Secretariat of
Programming and Budget sign a cooperation agreement in Mexico.
JUCEPLAN President Perez arrived in Mexico City on 27 May.
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August 8
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez attends the Mexico-Cuba cultural ceremony in
Havana hosted by the Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples in tribute
to Juan Marinello.
The Jose Marti National Library of Cuba and the Scientific and Humanis-
tic Information Center of Mexico's Autonomous National University sign
a cooperation agreement in Havana.
August 19 Director General Manuel Armendariz of the Mexican Foreign Trade
Institute announces that Mexico will sell Cuba over $100 million in various
products during the rest of 1983 and in 1984.
August 31 El Heraldo de Mexico reports that Cuban Ambassador to Mexico Fernan-
do Lopez Muino "has admitted not only that his country helps Nicaragua,
but that it has 200 advisers there."
September 5 Fidel Castro attends the signing in Havana of a financial agreement
between Cuba and Mexico.
September 26 National Assembly President Flavio Bravo departs for Mexico to hold talks
and exchange experiences between the Cuban parliament and the Mexican
Senate and Chamber of Deputies.
President of the National Assembly Flavio Bravo and his delegation visit
Mexico City at the invitation of the Senate; he meets with President de la
Madrid.
September 28 In an interview in Mexico City, Cuban exile Jorge Roblejo Lorie says that
Cuba has released 32 political prisoners during the past two months.
At the Mexican Senate, Flavio Bravo says the US should demonstrate with
actions that it supports the Contadora Group; a great gesture would be for
the US to withdraw troops from Honduras.
October 1 Flavio Bravo and his delegation are received by Alfredo del Mazo,
Governor of Mexico. The delegation has an extensive tour of the important
industrial region.
October 10 In an interview granted to the Mexican newspaper El Universal, Carlos
Rafael Rodriguez states that the danger of a military confrontation in
Central America is due to US aggression.
December 29 In an interview granted to the El Dia, Raul Roa Kouri stresses the
importance of the Contadora Group's efforts in search of a peaceful
solution to the Central American conflict.
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Mongolia
The Council of State appoints Rafael Fernandez Andino as Cuba's
Ambassador to Mongolia.
A Cuban delegation attends an international meeting on the subject of "the
labor unions in the struggle for peace" in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Chief of the cultural section of the Central Committee Chinea Cabrera
arrives in Ulaanbaatar in accordance with the plan for inter-party
cooperation between the MPRP and the PCC.
Vice President of the State Committee for Economic Cooperation Manuel
Torres Muniz and his Mongolian counterpart sign a protocol for 1983-84
concluding the sixth intergovernmental sessions.
A delegation from the National Assembly, headed by Augusto Fajardo Pi,
President of the Holguin Provincial Assembly, visits Mongolia to tour
industrial, economic, and cultural enterprises.
November 19, Top party and government leaders of the Mongolian People's Republic
have sent a message to Fidel Castro expressing their deep grief for the Cu-
ban's killed in Grenada.
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April 26 PCC member Sergio del Valle arrives in Mozambique to attend the Fourth
Congress of the Mozambique Liberation Front.
July 26
30 Cuban workers and several Mozambique workers who have been
studying in Cuba arrive. in Mozambique and inaugurate the regular
MaputoHavana monthly flight between the two countries.
President Samora Machel of Mozambique expresses his desire to strength-
en the links of friendship and cooperation in a message to Fidel Castro on
the 30th Anniversary of the Revolution.
July 28 Politburo alternate member Montane meets with the Mozambique delega-
tion, headed by Justice Minister Oscar Monteiro, to discuss the close ties
uniting the two countries.
September 8 Director of the National Sugar Institute Carmen Ramos visits Mozam-
bique to assess their sugar sector and to analyze the work being done by the
Cuban internationalists at Marromeu Sugar Estates.
December 23 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and'Isidoro Malmierca receive the credentials of
Daniel Antonio, new ambassador from Mozambique to Cuba.
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January 13 At the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Juan Almeida
says Cuba rejects the US proposal linking the withdrawal of Cuban troops
from Angola with Namibian Independence.
April 24 President of the National Assembly Flavio Bravo arrives in France to
attend the UN conference on Namibia.
April 26
April 28
May 23
September 8
October 27
December 28
The International Conference in Support of the Namibian People opens its
second day of work in Paris. Cuba is unanimously elected to fill one of the
five vice presidencies.
In a speech in Paris, Flavio Bravo reiterates Cuba's unyielding and
solidarity commitment in support of Namibia's struggle for independence.
Foreign Minister Malmierca departs Paris for New York to participate in
the UN -Security Council's special meeting in Namibia.
During a meeting in Havana, PCC member Jorge Risquet and Angolan
Minister of External Relations Paulo Jorge condemn the US stand on
independence for Namibia.
A joint communique is issued in the Congo rejecting all attempts to link
Namibia's independence to the presence of Cuban troops in Angola during
Ramiro Valdes' visit.
South African state-run radio accuses the Soviet Union and Cuba of being
behind a push by 1,000 Namibian nationalist guerrillas into Namibia from
Angola.
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August 4 Havana's Mayor Oscar Fernandez Mell presents the key to the city to
Abraham Peyter, mayor of Rotterdam.
August 9 Before departing Havana, Abraham Peyter, Mayor of Rotterdam, says the
Netherlands is willing to develop cooperation with Cuba; he signs an
agreement with his counterpart Oscar Fernandez Mell.
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January;,1 Fidel Castro receives messages of-congratulations from the USSR, Nicara-
gua, and other "socialist" countries marking the 24th anniversary of the
Cuban Revolution.
January 8 : Isidoro Malmierca,. Ricardo Alarcon, Raul Roa Kouri, and Lazaro Mora,
director of the Nonaligned Countries desk of the Foreign Ministry, depart
for Manauga to attend the Nonaligned meeting.
In an interview granted to the New Nicaraguan News Agency, Foreign
Minister Malmierca says that the Cuban Government advocates a peaceful
solution to the Central American crisis.
January 11 Foreign Ministers Malmierca and Mario Velarde Dorado of Bolivia sign a
declaration in Managua to reestablish diplomatic relations; ambassadors
will be appointed later.
January 18 Fidel Castro tells the Costa Rican deputies that he will do everything
possible to have peace and harmony between Nicaragua and Costa Rica,
but that he cannot intervene in local affairs.
February 2 Havana press announces that the first group of the 2,000 Cuban primary
school teachers who make up the Augusto Cesar Sandino fourth interna-
tionalist contingent are already in Nicaragua.
February 5 Minister of Basic Industry Domenech greets a delegation from the
Nicaraguan Energy Institute to discuss cooperation and tour thermoelec-
tric and nuclear power plants under construction.
March 13
March 26-29
April 13
May 17
Education Minister Jose Ramon Fernandez attends the inauguration
ceremonies in Nicaragua for three schools donated by Cuba with a
capacity of 1,000 students.
Senator Lowell Weicker meets with Fidel Castro, who says he is eager to
find solutions to problems between the US and Cuba on a variety of issues,
including El Salvador and Nicaragua.
Vice Foreign Minister Oscar Oramas heads the Cuban delegation to the
.Central American regional conference on the Palestinian question in
Nicaragua; Oramas criticizes the US and Israel.
UN Ambassador Raul Roa Kouri, in a UN Security Council meeting,
expresses Cuba's support in achieving a negotiated solution of the Central
American conflict, particularly against Nicaragua.
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May 22
May 27
June 1
Central Committee members Jose Ramon Machado Ventura and Carlos
Lage receive the Nicaraguan Sandinist youth delegation "19 de Julio,"
headed by National Coordinator Carlos Carrion.
Senator Goldwater also says the US should send ships and planes to the
Caribbean to stop arms shipments from Cuba and Nicaragua to Salvador-
an guerrillas.
The Reagan administration charges Cuba with expanding "political-
military activism" in Central America; that Cubans, Nicaraguans, and
Salvadoran guerrillas are planning attacks in the region.
Foreign Minister Malmierca, in Cartagena, says his country might recon-
sider the presence of its military advisers in Nicaragua, "if the US
withdraws its own from El Salvador and Honduras."
Isidoro Malmierca, in Cartagena, Colombia to participate in the 450th
anniversary of the city says, "there are Cuban teachers and doctors in
Nicaragua" as part of a cooperation agreement.
Nicaraguan Planning Minister Henry Ruiz and Hector Rodriguez Llom-
part sign an economic, scientific-technological cooperation agreement in
Managua.
A group of 24 Nicaraguan fighters made up of peasants, workers, and
women who fought against the Somoza regime are visiting Cuba.
Jesus Montane welcomes Gerardo Iglesias, Secretary General of the
Spanish Communist Party upon his arrival in Havana from Nicaragua.
The New York Times reports that Cuba's top combat commander, General
Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, has been secretly assigned to Nicaragua, thus
expanding Cuba's military role in Central America.
The State Department announces that it has information that Cuban
General Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez is in Nicaragua and that he has military
duties there.
The Cuban ship "Rio Jibacoa" arrives at the Port of Corinto with a crew of
98 to study fishing resources as part of an agreement signed by the Fishing
Ministries of both countries.
Havana press announces that Cuba will send a shipment of spare parts and
technological equipment for several sugar mills under construction in
Nicaragua; the plant will begin operating in 1984.
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July 16 Manuel Pineiro, in a speech at the ceremony commemorating the fourth
anniversary of the Nicaraguan revolution, says the Cubans and the
Sandinistas are united in fighting US imperialism.
In a message on the 4th anniversary of the Nicaraguan revolution, Cuba's
Movement for Peace and Sovereignty of the Peoples reiterates its support
to Nicaragua and condemns US imperialism.
? July 18 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, in Managua to attend the festivities marking the
fourth anniversary of the Sandinista revolution, reiterates Cuba's support
for peace in Central America.
July 26 At a press conference in Santiago, Deputy Foreign Minister Alarcon says.
that Cuba would regard a US blockade or naval quarantine of Nicaragua"
as an "act of war."
Deputy Foreign Minister Alarcon, in Santiago, says that Cuba was
prepared to join in negotiations on Central America sponsored by the
Contadora group to the extent that Nicaragua wanted.
July 27 Fidel Castro, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, Nicaraguan Minister Ruiz, and
Grenadian Prime Minister Bishop attend the ceremony in which Fidel
Castro dedicates the Santiago Textile Complex.
August 3 In his speech commemorating Cuba's "Labor Youth Army," Raul Castro
charges the US with commiting a "virtual act of war" against Nicaragua
by reinforcing its military presence in Central America.
August 6 In a statement issued in Havana, the Cuban Movement for Peace and
Sovereignty of Peoples expresses its support of the Nicaraguan revolution
and condemns US escalation in Central America.
August 16 Twenty members of the Carlos Fonseca Amador Brigade of the Federation
of University Students departs for Nicaragua to help in the construction of
housing in the city of Leon.
August 18 Managua radio announces that Ninety-nine secondary school students
from Nicaragua will leave for Cuba on 19 August to pursue vocational
careers on the Isle of Youth.
August 19 The Ministry of Education reports that 4,335 Cuban teachers are provid-
ing internationalist assistance in 20 countries: including 2,112 in Nicara-
gua and 1,861 in Angola.
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August 22 Havana reports that 375 Nicaraguan youths will soon leave for Cuba to ,
join the more than 1,000 Nicaraguans already studying; some 2,000
Nicaraguans have received training in Cuba so far.
August 26 Minister of Public Health Sergio del Valle leads a delegation to Nicaragua
to attend the graduation of the "30th Moncada Anniversary" contingent,
comprised of 200 interns.
August 29 Havana press announces that a third contingent of 228 sixth-year medical
students will soon go abroad to spend two years in Nicaragua, Guinea-
Bissau, and Ethiopia.
August 31 El Heraldo de Mexico reports that Cuban Ambassador to Mexico Fernan-
do Lopez Muino "has admitted not only that his country helps Nicaragua,
but that it has 200 advisers there."
Minister of Public Health Sergio del Valle Jimenez holds meetings with
Cuban internationalists serving in Chinandega Department, during his
tour through Nicaraguan regions.
September 2 Health Minister Sergio del Valle departs Nicaragua. During his visit he
discussed bilateral health cooperation with Health Minister Guido and met
with leaders Daniel Ortega and Jaime Wheelock.
September 9 The Foreign Ministry condemns the anti-Sandinista bombing attack on: Nicaragua's Sandino Airport on 8 September as "US-inspired aggression"
designed to wreck regional peace talks.
September 14 Fidel Castro sends a message of congratulations to the Nicaraguan . ' .
Government on the occasion of the 162nd anniversary of Nicaragua's
independence and reiterates Cuba's firm solidarity.
September 15 In a press conference in Havana, Nora Astorga discusses the current
political situation in Nicaragua, denounces US aggression, and agrees with
the concept of the Contadora Group meeting.
Ricardo Alarcon welcomes Nicaraguan Vice Minister of Foreign Relations
Nora Astorga who will attend the ceremonies commemorating the 162nd
anniversary of Central America independence.
September 25 Vice President of the Council of Ministers Osmani Cienfuegos leads a
delegation to Nicaragua to participate in the new working sessions of the
two governments' mixed commission on cooperation.
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October 14
October 15
October 16
October 25
November 1
November 14
Osmani Cienfuegos and Nicaraguan Minister of Agriculture Jaime Whee-
lock visit the TipitapaMalacatoya agricultural and industrial center where
Cuba is helping to build a sugarmill.
Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega calls for an end to the US blockade of
Cuba and withdrawal from the Guantanamo Naval Base during a meeting
in New York of member states of the Nonaligned Movement.
According to two signed communiques in Havana, the Cuban, Bulgarian,
and Afghan Governments reiterate their support of the Sandinista revolu-
tion "in the face of US aggression."
Cuban Vice Labor Minister Hector Martinez Brito arrives in Nicaragua
and meets with Labor Minister Godoy to evaluate the Cuba-Nicaragua
cooperation agreement for 1983.
Cuban Vice Minister for Labor Appeals Hector Martinez Brito and
Nicaraguan Vice Minister.of Labor Benedicto Meneses discuss expansion
of bilateral cooperation in the labor sector in Managua.
Severo Aguirre, President of the Cuban Movement for the Peace and
Sovereignty of Peoples leaves for Managua to participate in a hearing for
peace and against imperialist intervention in Managua.
Havana press reports that Nicaragua alleges the CIA and the Reagan
Administration were responsible for the 10 October attack on Corinto,
Nicaragua's most important seaport.
Managua press reports that Fidel Castro has promised Interior Minister
Tomas Borge that he will publicly clarify the contacts that Cuba has had
with ARDE, Eden Pastora's resistance group.
Nicaragua requests an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council to
discuss the situation in Grenada, while Cuban Ambassador Raul Roa
Kouri condemns "the US imperialist government."
The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union delegation visiting Cuba and
Cuba release a communique condemning the Reagan administration's
invasion of Grenada. The delegation departs for Nicaragua.
Education Minister Jose Ramon Fernandez accompanies 133 internation-'I
alist teachers from Nicaragua to Cuba, some have completed their 2-year
tour of duty, others are in Cuba for vacation.
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November 18 Commander of the Revolution of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega sends a
message of solidarity to Fidel Castro on the occasion of the death of
Cubans in Grenada.
November 26 Havana press reports that Cuban internationalists working in Nicaragua
have expressed their determination to remain at their posts despite the
threats of an "imperialist military attack."
Madrid press announces that a contingent of 2,000 Cuban teachers
returned from Nicaragua following the end of the school year there.
November 28 The first Cuba-Nicaragua Anti-Imperialist Youth Conference concludes in
Santiago de Cuba; the meetings strengthened their unity in the struggle
against oppression and crime.
November 30 At a news conference, Interior Minister Borge said the Nicaraguan
Government has reaaffirmed its willingness to do without Cuban military
advisers if a Central American peace treaty is signed.
December 27 Cuba and Nicaragua sign an economic and trade cooperation agreement
for 1984 amounting to more than $40 million.
December 30 Central Committee member Humberto Miguel Fernandez bids farewell to
a group of internationalist teachers who will work in Nicaragua.
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Nonaligned Movement
January 8 Isidoro Malmierca, Ricardo Alarcon, Raul Roa Kouri, and Lazaro Mora,
director of the Nonaligned Countries desk of the Foreign Ministry, depart
for Manauga to attend the Nonaligned meeting.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, discusses the,current international situation and
the Nonaligned Movement with representatives of the United Nations who
have been visiting Cuba since 2 January.
January 10 National Assembly President Flavio Bravo discusses the international
situation and the upcoming seventh meeting of the Nonaligned Movement
with Algerian President Chadli Bendjedid.
January 11 Foreign Ministers Malmierca and Mario Velarde Dorado of Bolivia sign a
declaration in Managua to reestablish. diplomatic relations; ambassadors
will be appointed later. ,
January 13
January 19
January 20
January 24
Juan Almeida delivers a message from Fidel Castro to Malian President
Moussa Traore, with whom he exchanges views on international relations
and the Nonaligned Movement.
Juan Almeida-stopping over in Nairobi, Kenya, on his way to Mauritius
from Mali-discusses bilateral relations and the Nonaligned Movement
with government ministers Kamwithi and Afande.
Former Colombian President Michelsen reports to President Betancur that
the time is not right to renew diplomatic relations with Havana and Cuba
does not oppose Colombia's entry into the NAM.
Fidel Castro discusses bilateral relations, the situation in the Middle East,
and the recent Nonaligned meeting in Nicaragua with Yemen's Foreign
Minister `Abd al-'Aziz al-Dali.
Foreign Minister Malmierca discusses the current situation in Latin
America, the Nonaligned Movement, and bilateral relations with Barba-
dos's External Affairs Minister Louis Tull.
January 26 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez discusses Central America, the Caribbean, and
the upcoming summit meeting of the Nonaligned Movement with Barbadi-
an Foreign Minister Tull before Tull's departure from Havana.
February 2-5 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets in New Delhi with Foreign Minister
Narasimha Rao to deliver a message from Fidel Castro to President Singh
and to discuss bilateral relations.
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February 4 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez delivers a message from Fidel Castro to Indirl
Gandhi and they discuss various matters related to the seventh Nonaligned
Summit Meeting to be held in New Delhi.
February 6-9 First Vice Foreign Minister Jose Viera visits Ethiopia to discuss the
forthcoming Nonaligned Summit Meeting in New Delhi and international
issues with Ethiopian officials in Addis Ababa.
February 8 Jesus Montane meets with Yemen's Prime Minister Ali Nasir Muhammad
al-Hasani in Aden to discuss international problems and the Nonaligned
Movement meeting in New Delhi.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez arrives in Belgrade and discusses bilateral
relations and the international situation with Zvone Dragan, Vice Presi-
dent of the Federal Executive Council.
The first meeting of the Nonaligned Movement's advisory group on small-
scale fishing and associated boatbuilding begins in Havana.
February 9 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez discusses the international situation and the 7th
Nonaligned Movement meeting with Yugoslavia's leaders Mitja Ribicic
and Petar Stambolic.
February 10 Fidel Castro discusses international problems, bilateral interests, and the
forthcoming Nonaligned Movement meeting in New Delhi with Algerian
Foreign Minister Ahmed Taleb Ibrahimi.
Deputy Foreign Minister Pelegrin Torras tells Pakistan's President Zia
that Fidel Castro and his government eagerly desire to strengthen relations
and they discuss the Nonaligned Movement.
February 11 Jesus Montane discusses the Nonaligned Movement's 7th summit meeting
with Syria's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Faruq ash-Shar.
February 15 According to the Nonaligned Movement's headquarters in the UN,
Colombia, Bahamas, and Barbados will join the Nonaligned. Honduras
will not be admitted and Venezuela withdraws its application.
February 17 Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Pelegrin Torras is received in Kabul by
Shah Mohammad Dost, Afghanistan's Minister of Foreign Affairs to
discuss the upcoming 7th Nonaligned Meeting.
February 19 Deputy Foreign Minister Pelegrin Torras arrives in Islamabad and meets
with Foreign Secretary Mr. Niaz A. Naik and Foreign Minister Yaqub
Khan to discuss the Nonaligned Movement.
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Cuban officials describe the Seventh Nonaligned Summit as the crowning
point to Fidel Castro's chairmanship because it strengthened the move-
ment's unity and improved Cuba's image.
March 17 Isidoro Malmierca conveys greetings from Fidel Castro to Spanish Prime
Minister Felipe Gonzalez and they discuss bilateral relations and the
Seventh Nonaligned Summit Meeting.
February 27
March 1-2
March 5
March 7
Foreign Minister Malmierca, arriving in New Delhi to attend the Seventh
Summit Meeting of the Nonaligned countries, is met by Indian Foreign
Minister Narasimha Rao.
The Nonaligned Experts' meeting is held in New Delhi. Raul Roa Kouri
warns of the nuclear war danger threatening the world during the opening
session.
Fidel Castro and his delegation, traveling from Havana to New Delhi to at-
tend the 7th Nonaligned Summit Meeting, are accompanied by Grenada's
Prime Minister Bishop and Suriname's strongman Bouterse.
Fidel Castro, addressing the Nonaligned Movement meeting in New Delhi,
accuses the US Administration of instructing the CIA to resume plans to
kill Cuban leaders.
Fidel Castro, head of the Nonaligned Movement since 1979, hands over
the leadership of the movement to Indiri Gandhi during the opening of the
7th Nonaligned Movement meeting in New Delhi.
March 14 In an interview in Granma, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez describes Fidel
Castro's role in New Delhi as "extraordinary" and states that Fidel had
talks with more than 40 chiefs of state or government.
March 23 Paris L'Humanite interviews Armando Hart on US intervention in Central
America and the Caribbean and the recent Nonaligned Summit meeting in
New Delhi.
April 12 Jose Fernandez addresses the opening session of the NAM Nuclear Energy
meeting charging the US and other capitalist nations of obstructing the
peaceful uses of nuclear energy in the Third World.
April 12-14 The Nonaligned meeting on Nuclear Energy is held in Havana, Fidel
Castro is elected chairman by consensus.
April 29 Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in New Delhi to attend a limited
meeting of Nonaligned Movement foreign ministers.
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Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega calls for an end to the US blockade of
Cuba and withdrawal from the Guantanamo Naval Base during a meeting
in New York of member states of the Nonaligned Movement.
Fidel Castro sends a personal message to Indira Gandhi concerning the US
invasion of Grenada and the dangerous situation in Central America and
the Caribbean.
Isidoro Malmierca delivers a message from Fidel Castro to Indian Prime
Minister Gandhi in which Fidel offers his ideas about the situation in the
Middle East, Central America, and the Caribbean.
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February 10 Deputy Foreign Minister Pelegrin Torras tells Pakistan's President Zia
that Fidel Castro and his government eagerly desire to strengthen relations
and they discuss the Nonaligned Movement.
February 19 Deputy Foreign Minister Pelegrin Torras arrives in Islamabad and meets
with Foreign Secretary Mr. Niaz A. Naik and Foreign Minister Yaqub
Khan to discuss the Nonaligned Movement.
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February 17 Jorge Lezcano, Vice President of Cuba's National Assembly is in Algiers
to attend the Palestinian National Council Meeting.
February 19 Jesus Montane and Yasir Arafat's special envoy Ahmed Romeh meet in
Havana. Romeh delivers a message from Arafat conveying his high esteem
for Cuba's support for the Palestinian people.
March 1 ICAP President Rene Rodriguez Cruz sends a message to Yasir Arafat
congratulating him for his election as Chairman of the Executive Commit-
tee of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
March 29 Levi Farah announces the establishment of the Cuban Committee in
Support of an International Conference on the Palestinian Issue sponsored
by the UN and headed by Isidoro Malmierca.
March 30 The Cuban Committee in Support of the International Conference on the
Palestinian Issue, slated to be held from 16-27 August 1983 in Paris, is
formed in Havana; Malmierca is appointed President.
June 24 PLO sources report that Aboud Iyab, regarded as Al Fatah's "Number
Two" man, arrives in Havana at the invitation of the Central Committee.
June 25 Fidel Castro sends a message to Syrian President Hafiz al-Asad asking
him to avoid any action that may provoke a dramatic confrontation with
Palestine.
The Palestinian news agency reports that Yasir Arafat received a message
from Fidel Castro asking Arafat "to avoid anything that may provoke a
Syrian-Palestinian confrontation."
June 26 President of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples Rene Rodri-
guez meets in Czechoslovakia with Yasir Arafat to discuss the Middle East
situation.
Jesus Montane meets with a PLO delegation from the Fatah Palestinian
organization to review the relations between the Palestinian revolutionaries
and the PCC.
Fidel Castro and PLO leader Aboud Iyab discuss bilateral relations and in-
ternational problems, especially the situation in the Middle East.
In a press interview in Havana, Palestinian leader Aboud Iyab expresses
his satisfaction over the results of the talks he held during his visit to Cuba.
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July 5 Minister of Construction Abroad Levi Farah delivers a message from Fidel
Castro to Syrian President Hafiz al-Acad.
July 11
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July 26
July 27
July 29
July 30
Minister of Construction Abroad Levi Farah discusses the latest Palestin-
ian developments, particularly the events in Lebanon's Al Biqa Valley,
with PLO leader Yasir Arafat.
PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat and Minister of Construction Abroad Levi
Farah discuss Cuba's efforts to solve the current crisis between Syria and
,the PLO in a meeting in Tunis.-
Syrian Prime Minister Abd ar-Ra'uf al-Kasm'receives Levi Farah in
Damascus; they discuss the situation in the Middle East and the occupa-
tion of southern Lebanon by Israeli aggressors.
Minister of Construction Abroad Levi Farah gives a message from Fidel
Castro to Syrian Prime Minister Abd ar-Ra'uf al-Kasm for President
Hafiz al-Asad.
The Palestinian news agency WAFA reports that Levi Farah and Yasir
Arafat discussed Cuban-Palestinian relations and the current international
and Arab situations during their recent meetings.
Tunis press announces that Levi Farah proposed to Yasir Arafat that a
meeting be held in Havana between representatives of Fatah, Syria, the
USSR, and Cuba to discuss the PLO-Syrian dispute.
September 2 Foreign Minister Malmierca meets with PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat at a
UN Conference in Geneva, where they discuss the Middle East, particular-
ly Lebanon, and bilateral relations.
Foreign Minister Malmierca meets with PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat at
the UN Conference on the Palestinian Issue in Geneva; they discuss the
Middle East, Lebanon and bilateral relations.
September 13 In a communique issued in Havana, the representatives of the PLO and the
FMLN and FDR fronts expressed their total rejection of the reopening of
the Israeli Embassy in the Salvadoran capital.
September 16 Flavio Bravo and Deputy Minister of Foreign Relations Ricardo Alarcon
meet with the Arab Interparliamentary Union delegation to discuss the
Palestinian cause and Central America.
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January 14 Cuban National Bank President Raul Leon Torras meets in Panama with
President Ricardo de la Espriella and members of his economic cabinet to
discuss expanding relations.
July 23 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives the credentials of Juan Angel Gomez
Vargas accrediting him as the new ambassador from Panama.
July 26 Fidel Castro sends a letter to Panamanian President de la Espriella
expressing support for the objectives of the Cancun meeting and advocat-
ing that confrontation be replaced by dialogue.
October 14 Panamanian Ambassador to Cuba Juan Gomez Vargas thanks the Cuban
people for their friendship in a ceremony in Havana commemorating the
15th anniversary of the government led by Omar Torrijos.
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January 14 Oscar Fernandez Mell, the mayor of Havana, visiting in Lima, stresses
that "Cuba does not support" the terrorism rampant in Peru.
January 18
January 30
April 1
April 5
April 6
Peruvian President Fernando Belaunde Terry receives Oscar Fernandez
Mell at Government Palace. .
Eduardo Rego, the mayor of Peru and Cuba's mayor, Oscar Fernandez
Mell sign a cooperation agreement in Lima to exchange experiences on
preservation, care, and restoration of historical sites.
According to officials who caught one group of would-be immigrants at
Miami International Airport, Cuban refugees in Peru are using black-
market passports and phony visas to come to the US.
Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas, stopping in Peru enroute to Buenos
Aires, tells Peruvian agriculture officials Cuba will analyze the possibility
of supplying sugar to Peru.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez discusses bilateral relations and the situation in
Latin America and the Caribbean with the visiting Mayor of Lima,
Eduardo Orrego Villacorta.
Jesus Montane and Eduardo Orrego Villacorta, Mayor of Lima, discuss
topics of mutual interest stressing the common bonds uniting the two
peoples and their wishes to strengthen relations.
Lima Mayor Eduardo Orrego Villacorta talks of his meeting with Fidel
Castro, calling him a great leader, and expressing hopes of strengthening
relations, during a press conference in Havana.
An artistic and cultural delegation from Peru arrives in Havana at the
invitation of the House of the Americas.
Flavio Bravo meets in Caracas with former Peruvian Foreign Minister
Edgardo Mercado Jarrin.
Armando Villanueva Del Campo, leader of the American Revolutionary
Popular Alliance of Peru, arrives in Havana.
December 26 Fidel Castro discusses the political and economic problems confronting
Latin America with Armando Villaneuva noted leader of the Peruvian
Popular Alliance Party.
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January 7 Raul Castro arrives in Poland and meets with General Jaruzelski to discuss
the country's sociopolitical and economic situation.
Raul Castro meets with Jozef Czyrek, member of the Politburo and
secretary of PZPR Central Committee of Poland to discuss current
problems of cooperation between the two parties.
January 12 Raul Castro says that the US Government has used all of its power to fo-
ment the destabilization of Poland during a meeting with representatives of
the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR).
January 22 Foreign Trade Vice Minister Jose de la Fuente and his Polish counterpart
Andrzej Doroszon sign a trade protocol for 1983 in Warsaw.
May 16
May 17
May 18
Minister of Health Sergio del Valle arrives in Warsaw and is greeted by
Polish Health and Social Welfare Minister Tadeusz Szelachowski.
Minister of Public Health Sergio del Valle visits Lublin, Poland and tours
the Lublin rural health center, the surgical-clinical hospital, and the
former Nazi concentration camp of Majdanek.
Minister of Public Health Sergio del Valle and his Polish counterpart
Miroslaw Milewski sign a cooperation plan in the field of health for the
1983-85 period.
Minister of Public Health Sergio del Valle, Prime Minister of Poland
Wojciech Jeruzelski, and Poland's Health Minister Miroslaw Milewski
discuss world issues and cooperation in health.
July 8
July 23
Raul Fornell Delgado, Cuban Ambassador to Poland dies of a heart attack
in Warsaw. Henryk Jablonski, Chairman of Poland's Council of State
sends Fidel Castro a message of condolence.
Jesus Montane presides at a ceremony in Havana establishing the Cuban-
Polish Friendship Association; Division General Senen Casas Regueiro is
named president of the association.
Division General Senen Casas meets with Jozef Czyrek, member of the
Polish United Workers Party during his visit to Poland.
The Council of State appoints Quintin Pino Machado ambassador to
Poland.
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Fidel Castro meets in Havana with a Polish delegation, headed by
Miroslaw Milewski, member of the Political Bureau; they discuss party
cooperation and tightening the ties of cooperation.
August 16 Quinton Pino Machado, Cuba's new ambassador to Poland, presents his
credentials to Deputy Chairman of Poland's Council of State Tadeusz
Mlynczak.
? August 23-27 Foreign Minister Malmierca visits Poland.
August,24: Foreign Minister Malmierca and his Polish counterpart Stefan Olezowski
open talks.
August 25 Foreign Minister Malmierca and Poland's Foreign Minister Olszowski
agree in their viewpoints regarding cooperation and to the international
situation during their speeches in Poland.
Foreign, Minister Malmierca and Poland's Foreign Minister Olszowski
express concern over the deployment of 572 new US medium-range
missiles in various countries of Western Europe.
August 26
September 26
October 12
Foreign Minister Malmierca visits the "UnitraPolkolor" in Piaseczno, in
connection with planned construction in Cuba of a factory for color
television sets with cooperation with Poland.
Foreign Minister Malmierca conveys warm wishes from Fidel Castro to
Polish General Wojciech Jaruzelski. Malmierca and Jaruzelski discuss
economic and political cooperation.
Isidoro Malmierca and Stefan Olszowski issue a joint communique in
Warsaw condemning US imperialism and agree that securing peace and
effective disarmament are key problems of the world.
Division General Sixto Batista Santana ends a 5-day visit to Poland. He
and delegation members visited military units, schools, factories, and met
with Polish Generals Siwicki and Barela.
Fidel Castro awards the Order of Jose Marti to Polish leader General
Wojciech Jaruzelski on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Polish
People's Army..
Raul Castro attends the 40th anniversary celebrations of the Polish
People's Army in Havana; the Medal of Combat Fraternity is bestowed on
FAR officers and generals by Division General Casas.
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November 8 Division General Sixto Batista decorates Poland's Army General Wojciech
Jaruzelski with the Order of Jose Marti during a ceremony in Warsaw.
December 9 Cuba and Poland sign a trade protocol in Havana. Cuba will supply sugar,
fresh citrus fruit, honey, nickel, and other products. Poland will export
automobiles, textiles, spare parts, rolled steel.
December 14 Fidel Castro meets with 149 members of the Carlos Roloff Youth brigade
from Poland before concluding their 1-month stay in Cuba.
December 31 Jesus Montane is interviewed by the Polish press saying that the current
policy of US imperialism is not only a danger to world peace but is also
aimed at eliminating socialism in Cuba.
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March 27
Portugal
Fidel Castro greets Raul and his delegation upon their return from
Moscow and Poland.
Politburo alternate member Armando Acosta arrives in Lisbon to attend
the International Conference of Solidarity with Frontline States.
Fidel Castro sends a message to the International Conference of Solidarity
with the Frontline States being held in Lisbon supporting the Frontline
States and condemning US aggression.
December 14 Politburo alternate member Antonio Perez Herrero arrives in Lisbon
heading a Cuban delegation to the 10th Congress of the Portuguese
Communist Party.
December 29 Politburo candidate member Antonio Perez Herrero addresses the Portu-
guese Communist Party Congress in Oporto condemning the aggressive
and overbearing policy of the US Administration.
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March 18 Jesus Montane and Ricardo Alarcon meet with a high-level delegation-6f'.
the Puerto Rican Socialist Party.
August 24 UN Ambassador Raul Roa Kouri presents a draft resolution to the'UN
Decolonization Committee supporting the independence of Puerto Rico.
September 22 American Airlines flight 625 from New York to St. Thomas is hijacked to
Cuba, where the hijacker surrenders to the authorities; the airliner leaves
for Puerto Rico.
September 25
November 10
November 16
The Cuban Union of Young Communists, in a statement issued by its
national council, reiterates support for the groups seeking Puerto Rican
independence.
Havana press reports that 755 Cubans have returned from Grenada, two
diplomats remain in St. George's, and two wounded Cubans are receiving
medical attention in Puerto Rico.
Fidel and Raul Castro greet the two Cubans wounded in Grenada and
hospitalized in Puerto Rico upon their return to Cuba.
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February 17 Cuba and Romania sign a health cooperation agreement in Havana
effective until 1986.
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March 5
March 11
April 5
April 8
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez discusses bilateral economic relations with the
Chairman of Romania's State Planning Committee Ion Schiasesgovich
during a meeting in Havana.
Vice Chairman of the State Planning Committee of Romania Ion
Ceausescu holds trade talks in Havana with Carlos Rafael Rodriguez,
Sergio del Valle, Ricardo Cabrizas, and Antonio Esquivel.
Minister President of the State Committee for Material and Technical
Supply Irma Sanchez visits Romania.
Vice Minister of Agriculture Carlos Perez attends the first session of the
joint Romanian-Cuban cooperation talks held in Bucharest.
Deputy Minister of Agriculture Carlos Perez and his Romanian counter-
part Marin Constantin sign the protocol of the first session of the Joint Ro-
manian-Cuban Working Commission in Bucharest.
May 19 Romanian and Cuban radio and television officials sign a protocol in
Romania to exchange programs and information.
June 4 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives the credentials of Gheorghe Dumitrache,
Romania's ambassador to Cuba.
July 11
Romanian official Ion Patan arrives in Havana to attend the joint Cuban-
Romanian Intergovernmental Commission for Scientific and Technological
Cooperation.
July 12 Transportation Minister Guillermo Garcia Frias discusses cooperation in
the automotive and maritime transportation fields with Romanian official
Ion Patan.
Politburo alternate member Humberto Perez and Romanian official Ion
Patan discuss economic cooperation.
July 14
Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas and Hector Rodriguez Llompart discuss
the status and prospects of trade and cooperation with Romanian official
Ion Patan.
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July 23
July 29
Romanian official Ion Patan and Antonio Esquivel, Vice President of the
Council of Ministers sign a cooperation protocol ending the fifth session of
Cuban-Romanian Joint Intergovernmental Meetings.
Prime Minister Constantin Dascalescu of Romania receives Marcos Lage,
Minister of Iron and Steel Metallurgical Industries to discuss bilateral
economic cooperation.
Minister of the Steelworking Industry Marcos Lage and loan Avram,
Minister of the Machine Building Industry of Romania sign a cooperation
protocol in automotive industry, railroad, and other areas.
Romanian official Gheorghe Radulescu delivers a message from President
Ceausescu to Fidel Castro; they discuss bilateral relations and the interna-
tional situation during a meeting in Havana.
Romanian official Gheorghe Radulescu and Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meet
in Havana.
August 2 Communist Party member Julian Rizo Alvarez visits the Ministry of
Agriculture in Bucharest. Rizo arrived in Bucharest from Bulgaria on a
tour that began in the Soviet Union.
August 25
September 9
September 16
Fidel Castro sends a message to Romanian President Ceausescu on
National Day expressing satisfaction at the achievements attained by the
Romanian people in building a socialist society.
A delegation from Romania's National Union of Agricultural Production
Cooperatives led by its chairman, Vasile Marin, arrives in Havana; they
tour the Aniseto Perez Agricultural Cooperative.
The secretary general of the Romanian Communist Party, Nicolae
Ceausescu, receives two Cuban military officials, Division General Sixto
Batista Santana and Jose de la Fuente.
Minister of Domestic Trade Manuel Vila presides over festivities at the
international fair in Romania. Contracts totaling R46 million for the
delivery to Havana of transport equipment is signed.
December 26 A 4,500 ton cargo ship Guantanamo, the eighth ship of nine vessels under
contract, is received, in Romania, by Julio Perez Gonzalez, of the Cuban
Import Company for Merchant Fishboats.
Havana press'reports that Cuba and Romania recently signed a new
agreement for four tankers, each one weighing approximately 4,000 tons.
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June 4 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives. the credentials of Jean Marie Sibomana,
Rwanda's ambassador to Cuba.
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March 18. President of ICAP Rene Rodriguez and Maria Amelia Pinto da Costa,
President of the Sao Tome and Principe Friendship Association sign a
cooperation agreement for 1983-88. Espin meets with da Costa.
March, 22,-, Jesus Montane meets with Maria Amelia Pinto da Costa, President of the
Sao Tome-Cuba Friendship Association.
June 27 Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane receives Tome Dias da Costa,
member of the Movement for the Liberation of Sao Tome and Principe to
discuss bilateral relations and international issues.
Jesus Montane and Tome Dias da Costa sign a cooperation agreement for
1983-85 between the PCC and the Movement for the Liberation of Sao
Tome and Principe.
July 25 Raul Castro meets with a delegation from Sao Tome and Principe led by
Oscar Aguiar Sacramento de Souza, Minister of Defense; they discuss the
international situation and bilateral interests.
October 14 Carlos Rafel Rodriguez discusses matters on international issues, the
situations in Africa and Latin America, and relations of cooperation with
Sao Tome's Foreign Affairs Minister Maria Amorim.
October 16 Sao Tome and Principe's Foreign Affairs Minister Maria Amorim ends her
visit to Cuba; her meetings with representatives of Cuba's state and party
were described as successful.
November 28 The Cuban Communist Party announces that the Council of State has
designated Andres Silva Diaz as the new Cuban Ambassador to Sao Tome
and Principe.
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November 28, Politburo alternate member Jesus ' Montane greets Seido Cissoko, Secre-
tary General of the Independence and Labor Party of Senegal at Jose
Marti International Airport.
December 7 Politburo alternate member Montane and Seigu Sisoppo, Secretary Gener=
al of the Senegalese party, sign a cooperation agreement in Havana.
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January 16-19 Juan Almeida visits Seychelles and meets with President Albert Rene.
January 17
February 17
February 22
Juan Almeida meets with Seychelles' Minister of Planning Maxime
Ferrari and signs three bilateral cooperation agreements-eliminating
visas for diplomats and cooperation between the ministries.
Minister President of the State Committee for Economic Cooperation
Hector Rodriguez Llompart chairs the third Cuba-Seychelles Intergovern-
mental meeting in Havana.
Isidoro Malmierca and Seychelles National Development Minister Jacques
Hodoul discuss bilateral interests and the international situation during
meetings in Havana.
Seychelles Minister Hodoul and Hector Rodriguez Llompart sign a two-
year protocol for economic, scientific, and technical cooperation in health,
agriculture, construction, and culture.
August 1 Minister-President of the State Committee for Labor and Social Security
Joaquin Benavides meets with his Seychelles' counterpart, in Havana, to
discuss relations between the two ministries.
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South Africa
Fidel Castro and Oliver Tambo, head of the National African Congress
delegation, discuss the international political situation, especially Southern
Africa, during meetings in Havana.
In Luanda, the Cuban Ambassador to Angola says the US and South
Africa are trying to deceive the world by linking the independence of
Namibia to the presence of Cuban troops in Angola.
South African permanent representative at the UN, von Schirnding, tells
the Security Council that there can be no independence for South-West
Africa until Cuban forces are withdrawn from Angola.
South African state-run radio accuses the Soviet Union and Cuba of being
behind a push by 1,000 Namibian nationalist guerrillas into Namibia from
Angola.
December 30 Harare Domestic Service reports that Cuban Charge d'Affairs to Zimba-
bwe Ramon Alonso says his country is prepared to fight any forms of
aggression and imperialism from the US.
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January 1 Fidel Castro receives messages of congratulations from the USSR, Nicara-
gua, and other "socialist" countries marking the 24th anniversary of the
Cuban Revolution.
January 5 Vasiliy Shamshin, candidate member of the CPSU Central Committee and
Soviet Minister of Communication, arrives in Havana at the invitation of
the Cuban Ministry of Communications.
January 10
Central Committee member Pedro Guelmes and USSR Minister of
Communications Vasiliy Shamshin sign economic, scientific, and technical
cooperation agreements in Havana.
January 11 The State Department announces that the Soviet Union shipped about 50
Mig fighter planes to Cuba last year, raising the total number of Migs in
Cuba's possession to between 200 and 300.
January 12 A Soviet delegation arrives in Havana to participate in the 11th meeting of
the Standing Work Group for Cuban-Soviet Cooperation in the Sugar
Industry.
January 13 Fidel Castro greets Raul and his delegation upon their return from
Moscow and Poland.
USSR Deputy Minister of the Food Industry B. I. Svynster arrives in
Havana to participate in the 11th meeting of the Permanent Work Group
for Soviet-Cuban Cooperating in Sugar Industry.
January 15 A Sugar Industry cooperation pact is, signed with the USSR following the
11th meeting of the CubanSoviet Intergovernmental Commission's Perma-
nent Work Group.
February 1 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets in Moscow with Ivan Arkhipov, First
Deputy Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers.
February ,3 The Chambers of Commerce of Cuba and the Soviet Union sign a joint
work program for 1983-84 for the development of bilateral cooperation.
February 9 Secretariat member Lionel Soto arrives in Moscow to participate in a
meeting of Communist and Labor Party members of CEMA.
February 11 Vice President of the Council of Ministers Antonio Esquivel meets with his
Soviet counterpart Nikolay Baybakov in Moscow to discuss economic
cooperation and trade.
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March 2
March 3
March 5
Cuba and the USSR sign a protocol in Moscow covering trade and
payments that will exceed the 1982 level and amount to over 16.5 billion
rubles.
Raul Castro, Jorge Risquet, Julio Camacho, Div. General Casas, and
Vilma Espin attend a reception at the Soviet Embassy in Cuba celebrating
the 65th anniversary of the Soviet Army and Navy.
Oscar Fernandez Mell, Mayor of Havana City, receives Soviet Transport
official Viktor Mikhaylovich Kozlov to discuss the transportation problems
of the city.
Soviet Deputy Minister of Transportation Kozlov and Cuban Vice Minister
of Transportation Israel Rangel sign a cooperation protocol on transporta-
tion construction.
Fidel Castro sends a message to CPSU General Secretary Yuriy Andropov
as his plane flies over Moscow on his way to New Delhi.
March 6 Fidel Castro and his delegation stop in Tashkent enroute to New Delhi;
they visit the statue of Lenin, the House of Friendship of the USSR
Peoples Imeni Lenina, and the Tashkent metro.
Minister of Culture Armando Hart and his Soviet counterpart Petr
Demichev inaugurate the Second Intergovernmental Meeting on Culture
in Moscow; they sign a final protocol on 10 March.
March 10 Minister of Culture Armando Hart and Filipp Yermash, Chairman of the
State Committee for Cinematography, Gosakino sign the annual bilateral
plan in Moscow.
The first communications line through computer via satellite between
Cuba and the Soviet Union begins; this system is aimed at seeking
automated scientific-technical information.
March 11 Armando Hart and CPSU Politburo member Konstantin Chernenko
discuss cooperation between the two parties during meetings in Moscow.
Politburo alternate member Antonio Perez Herrero heads a delegation
participating in the meeting of secretaries of communist and workers'
parties from socialist countries in Moscow.
March 13 Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers N. V. Martynov
discusses economic cooperation with Irma Sanchez, President of the State
Committee for Technical and Material Supply.
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March 15 Over 250 specialists in social sciences from the hemisphere and the Soviet
Union attend debates on US domestic and economic policy and its
influence on Latin America in Havana.
A protocol on scientific-technological cooperation between the Soviet
Union and Cuba is signed in Havana.
March 23 The Pentagon announces that the Soviet Union has sent a record number
of Bear reconnaissance aircraft to Cuba, apparently to monitor a major
exercise by US and allied Navies in the Caribbean.
March 25 USSR Ambassador to Cuba Katushev and Politburo alternate member
Roberto Veiga discuss the recently held 46th CTC National Council.
March 26 USSR Ambassador to Cuba Katushev decorates Politburo member Ar-
naldo Milian with the Friendship of the Peoples Order on the occasion of
Milian's 70th birthday.
March 30 First Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Ivan Arkhipov
meets with visiting ministers Hector Rodriguez Llompart, Marcos Lage,
and Cuban Ambassador to the USSR Rene Anillo.
April 1 Hector Rodriguez Llompart and Soviet leader Vitaliy Morozov sign a
protocol in Moscow on the implementation of the Intergovernmental
Cooperation Agreement for 1981-86.
Before departing Moscow, Hector Rodriguez Llompart praises relations
with the Soviets by saying that trade with the USSR is the foundation of
the development of Cuba's national economy.
April 12 Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Thomas Enders
warns that any escalation of the conflict in Nicaragua by the Soviet Union
or Cuba would create a "dangerous situation."
April 13
April 14
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Hector Rodriguez Llompart accompany a
Soviet delegation,` headed by Vitaliy Morozov, to Cienfuegos to review the
work being carried out in oil and nuclear power.
AP Moscow reports that Major General Yuri Lebedev, military adviser to
Soviet arms-control negotiators, says the Soviet Union has "no need" to
put nuclear missiles in Cuba.
Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas is heading Cuba's delegation to
the 65th meeting of the CEMA Permanent Commission for Foreign Trade
in Moscow.
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April 18
Ricardo Cabrizas discusses trade with Soviet First Deputy Minister of
Foreign Trade Nikolay Komarov and Deputy Maritime Fleet Minister
Anatoliy Goldobenko.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez welcomes Ivan Arkhipov, First Deputy Chairman
of the USSR Council of Ministers, to Havana, where he will attend the
13th session of intergovernmental economic meetings.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Ivan Arkhipov sign a protocol at the 13th
meeting of the Cuban-Soviet Intergovernmental Commission for Econom-
ic, Scientific, and Technical Cooperation.
Fidel Castro, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, Ivan Arkhipov, and Konstantin
Katushev discuss the results of the intergovernmental meeting for econom-
ic, scientific, and technical cooperation.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez conveys to Ivan Arkhipov Cuba's gratitude for
"the systematic development of cooperation in the field of economic
building and in the important field of defense."
A senior Pentagon official says that if the Soviet Union sought to put
nuclear missiles into the Caribbean area, the Reagan administration would
take forceful measures to force their withdrawal.
April 25 Lionel Soto, member of the Central Committee Secretariat, heads a
delegation to Moscow to participate in a CEMA meeting.
May-3
Havana identifies the individual who hijacked the US aircraft on 1 May as
Rigoberto Gonzalez Sanchez, of Cuban nationality, who left the country
legally in 1969.
Labor Union leader Pedro Manuel Menchaca terms as positive the
presence of the Cuban delegation at the eighth congress of the Organiza-
tion of African Labor Union Unity recently held in Ethiopia.
May 11-24 A delegation of party workers headed by E. Mainegra, chief of the
Communist Party Central. Committee Basic Industry Department, visits
Moscow and meets with N. I. Ryzhkov, CPSU secretary.
May 13
Defense Secretary Weinberger, speaking at the annual meeting of the
Business Council, says the US would act to block any attempt by the
USSR to deploy its new SS-20 missile in Cuba.
Transportation Minister Garcia Frias meets in Moscow with B. P.
Bugayev, USSR Minister of Civil Aviation.
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May 17 Minister of Public Health Sergio del Valle arrives in Moscow; he meets
with his Soviet counterpart Sergey Burenkov.
May 23 President of the Academy of Sciences Wilfredo Torres and deputy
chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Marchuk discuss deepening
Soviet-Cuban scientific-technical cooperation in Moscow.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, on the occasion of his 70th birthday, is decorated
in Moscow with the Order of the October Revolution for his "fraternal
friendship and multifaceted cooperation."
Nikolay Ryzhkov, secretary of the CPSU Central Committee receives
Eugenio Mainegra, head of the Basic Industries Department of the PCC to
discuss cooperation in the field of energy conservation.
May 25 Jesus Montane is decorated with the Friendship of the Peoples Order by
Soviet Ambassador to Cuba Konstantin Katushev for his merits in
developing fraternal relations.
May 30 Central Committee member Flavio Bravo departs for Moscow in response
to an invitation extended to him by the USSR Supreme Soviet.
May 31 President of the National Assembly Flavio Bravo meets in Moscow with
Vitaliy Ruben, Chairman of the Council of Nationalities of the Presidium
of the Supreme Soviet to reaffirm solidarity.
Scientists from the Tajik Academy of Sciences visit Cuba to aid their
Cuban counterparts in setting up seismological stations for early warning
on earth tremors.
June 2 National Assembly President Flavio Bravo, during his visit to the USSR,
says that the Cubans are determined to turn their country into another
Stalingrad if the imperialists dare attack them.
June 3-5 National Assembly President Flavio Bravo Pardo visits Riga and meets
with Strautmanis, Latvian SSR Supreme Soviet Presidium chairman.
June 6 Petr Paskar', first deputy chairman of Gosplan, the Soviet planning
agency, arrives on an official visit at the invitation of Humberto Perez,
President of the Central Planning Board (JUCEPLAN).
June 7 During talks in Moscow, Soviet leader Kuznetsov voices "the inalterable
decision" of the USSR to aid Cuba's defense and economy to Flavio Bravo
Prado before Bravo's departure from the USSR.
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May 17 Minister of Public Health Sergio "del Valle arrives in Moscow; he meets
with his Soviet counterpart Sergey Burenkov.
May 23
May 25
.President of the Academy of Sciences Wilfredo Torres and deputy
chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Marchuk discuss deepening
Soviet-Cuban scientific-technical cooperation in Moscow.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, on the occasion of his 70th birthday, is decorated
in Moscow with the Order of the October Revolution for his "fraternal
friendship and multifaceted cooperation."
Nikolay Ryzhkov, secretary of the CPSU Central Committee receives
Eugenio Mainegra, head of the Basic Industries Department of the PCC to
discuss cooperation in the field of energy conservation.
Jesus Montane is decorated with the Friendship of the Peoples Order by.
Soviet Ambassador to Cuba Konstantin Katushev for his merits in
developing fraternal relations.
May 30 Central Committee member Flavio Bravo departs for Moscow in response
to an invitation extended to him by the USSR Supreme Soviet.
May. .31
President of the National Assembly Flavio Bravo meets in Moscow with
Vitaliy Ruben, Chairman of the Council of Nationalities of the Presidium
of the Supreme Soviet to reaffirm solidarity.
Scientists from the Tajik Academy of Sciences visit Cuba to aid their
Cuban counterparts in setting up seismological stations for early warning
on earth tremors.
June 2 National Assembly President Flavio Bravo, during his visit to the USSR,
says that the Cubans are determined to turn their country into another
Stalingrad if the imperialists dare attack them.
National Assembly President Flavio Bravo Pardo visits Riga and meets
with Strautmanis, Latvian SSR Supreme Soviet Presidium chairman.
Petr Paskar', first deputy chairman of Gosplan, the Soviet planning
agency, arrives on an official visit at the invitation of Humberto Perez,
President of the Central Planning Board (JUCEPLAN).
June, 7
During talks in Moscow, Soviet leader Kuznetsov voices "the inalterable
decision" of the USSR to aid Cuba's defense and economy to Flavio Bravo
Prado before Bravo's departure from the USSR.
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July 4
July 6
In a meeting in Moscow with Flavio Bravo Prado, Soviet official Vitaliy
Ruben says that the Soviet Union has always been and will continue to
stand beside the Cuban people in good and bad times.
Candidate member of the CPSU Central Committee Politburo Kuznetsov
receives Flavio Bravo and his delegation before their departure from the
USSR.
Minister of Higher Education Fernando Vecino Alegret and his Soviet
counterpart Cyacheslav Yelyutin meet in Moscow. Vecino Alegret will
tour educational centers attended by Cuban students.
The Soviet delegation led by Petr Paskar' visits the Sugar and the Fishing
Industry Ministries in Havana and various installations to learn about
Cuban advances in sugarcane by-products.
Transportation Minister Garcia Frias visits Moscow, where he discusses
bilateral cooperation in the sphere of transport and the transportation of
foreign trade cargo with CPSU member Aliyev.
Minister of Higher Education Fernando Vecino Alegret arrives in Tash-
kent to meet with a group of Cuban students studying in that republic.
More than 800 workers are building Cuba's largest thermoelectric power.
plant in Santa Cruz del Norte; the Soviet-designed plant is expected to
take 10 years to complete, costing $715 million.
President of the Havana Provincial Assembly Oscar Fernandez Mell greets
Anatoliy Stimovich Dirukov, Deputy Chairman of the.Moscow Soviet of
Deputies in Havana.
Vice President of the Council of Ministers Joel Domenech arrives in
Moscow to attend a meeting of the CEMA Executive Committee.
First Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Arkhipov
receives Joel Domenech, Vice President of the Cuban Council of Ministers.
Vice President of the Cuban Council of Ministers Joel Domenech meets
with V. E. Dymshits, Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers.
The Aracelio Iglesias Medal (Port Workers Medal) is awarded to Konstan-
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The state university and the polytechnic institute of the Kazakh SSR
graduate 42 Cuban youths in automation, digital computer, and mining
engineering, as well as philosophy professors.
A high-powered shortwave transmitter on 4765 KHZ, believed to be
located near Havana, has been heard since 29 June carrying relays of
Moscow's Russianlanguage "Mayak" and domestic service programming.
July 7 Soviet Ambassador to Cuba Konstantin Katushev presents the Order of the
October Revolution award to Carlos Rafael Rodriguez.
July 11 Havana TV reports that 1,63 Cuban students graduated in the Soviet
Union in the 1982-83 school year: 1,44 students in high level specialized
courses and 1,199 in medium level courses.
July 17-25 A Communist Party delegation, headed by J. Rizo, member of the PCC
Central Committee Secretariat, visits agricultural enterprises and scientif-
ic research institutions in the Soviet Union.
July 20 Lt. Gen. Vladimir Shatalov, chairman of the Soviet-Cuban Friendship
Society arrives in Havana aboard an IL-86 airplane, the first to land in
Cuba. The IL-86 will make weekly flights to Cuba.
July 21 Juan Almeida, Rene Anillo, Arnaldo Tamayo, and Carlos Lage attend a
reception in Moscow on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the Cuban
Revolution.
July 22 US Pentagon officials report that Soviet arms shipments to Cuba are down,
with only 20,000 metric tons of military equipment arriving in Cuba during
the first six months of 1983.
July 23 Vice President Blas Roca Calderio is awarded the Soviet Order of the
October Revolution for his services to the development of fraternal
friendship and cooperation between the USSR and Cuba.
July 24-29 CPSU Central Committee candidate member M. S. Solomentsev, visits
Cuba; he takes part in ceremonies commemorating the 30th Anniversary of
the Revolution and meets with Fidel Castro.
July 26 Marshal of the Soviet Union and Defense Minister Ustinov send Raul
Castro a message of congratulations on the occasion of the 30th Anniversa-
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July 28 The third festival of Soviet-Cuban youth friendship concludes in an
automobile factory in Minsk. First Secretary of the Union of Young
Communists Carlos Lage Davila attends.
July 30 Tunis press announces that Levi Farah proposed to Yasir Arafat that a
meeting be held in Havana between representatives of Fatah, Syria, the
USSR, and Cuba to discuss the PLO-Syrian dispute.
August 2 Communist Party member Julian Rizo Alvarez visits the Ministry of
Agriculture in Bucharest. Rizo arrived in Bucharest from Bulgaria on a
tour that began in the Soviet Union.
TASS reports on US Senator McGovern's press conference in Washington
and his talks with Fidel Castro in Havana. McGovern feels Cuba is ready
to discuss bilateral problems with the US.
August 5 Havana press announces that foreign trade planned in the 1983 Cuba-
USSR trade protocol will be more than 6.5 billion rubles, a 19 percent in-
crease over 1982.
August 18 Central Committee member Orlando Lugo Fonte accompanies Soviet
Deputy Minister Dzandar Avsimaykhovich Takoyev on a visit to the oil
exploration area north of Pinar del Rio Province.
August 22 Soviet Deputy Minister of the Petroleum Industry Takoyev and Oscar
Lopez sign a protocol in Havana establishing basic directives for bilateral
cooperation in petroleum extraction.
August 29 Attorney General Idalberto Ladron de Guevara Quintana meets with his
Soviet counterpart, Aleksandr Rekunkov, in Havana, to discuss aspects of
cooperation between their offices.
September 1 A. Alvarez Gil and his delegation meet in the USSR with I. V. Kapitonov,
Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee.
September 1-10 A. Alvarez Gil, Chief of the Central Committee's Organizational Section
heads a delegation to the USSR to discuss the CPSU's experiences in party
organization work.
September 5 Prensa Latina claims the US is directly involved in the disappearance of
South Korean Airlines Flight 07.
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September 9 Minister President of the Cuban State Committee for Economic Coopera-
tion Hector Rodriguez Llompart meets in the USSR with his counterpart,
Ya. P. Ryabov.
September 17 The Soviet oceanographic research ship (Riz) arrives to study and establish
geomorphologic characteristics and the composition of marine animal and
plant life of Cuba and adjacent areas.
September 21 President Reagan speaks with out-of-town journalists saying the US is
prepared to improve relations with Fidel Castro, but only if he comes "out
from under the wing of the Soviet Union."
September 22 Politburo alternate member Antonio Perez Herrero departs Moscow after
participating in meetings on ideological and international affairs.
October 4 At the UN, Foreign Minister Malmierca says that the Reagan Adminis-
tration used the shooting down of a South Korean airliner by the Soviets
last month to justify an arms buildup.
TASS reports President Reagan signs a bill creating Radio Marti.
October 13 USSR Ferrous Metallurgy Minister Iran Pavlovich Kazanets and USSR
Ambassador to Cuba Katushev tour the buildings of the Fabrik Aguilar
Noriega Mechanical Products Enterprise of Santa Clara.
October 16 President of the National Assembly Flavio Bravo arrives in Moscow
heading a delegation that will also visit Vietnam, Laos, and Kampuchea.
October .17 Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas and his Soviet counterpart N. S.
Patolichev discuss further development of trade and economic ties.
The Florentina Alejo Medal is conferred on Ivan Pavlovich Kazanets,
Soviet Minister of Ferrous Metallurgy, for his extraordinary contribution
to Cuba's metallurgic development.
November-1 President Seaga announces that Jamaica is expelling four Soviet diplomats
and a Cuban journalist for purportedly spying and conspiring to kill a
foreign ministry official.
November 4 TASS reports that Soviet citizens and citizens from other socialist
countries, in Grenada when the US invaded, have arrived in Cuba.
November 6 Fidel Castro sends a message to Yuriy Andropov on the occasion of the
66th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.
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November 28
The Reagan Administration announces the halt of imports of nickel
products from the Soviet Union unless Moscow can guarantee they do not
contain Cuban ore.
First Deputy Chairman of the Soviet Union's Council of Ministers Ivan
Arkhipov discusses several aspects of cooperation with Hector Rodriguez
Llompart during a meeting in Moscow.
November 29 Soviet Foreign Minister Andrey Gromyko receives Cuban Ambassador to
the Soviet Union Rene Anillo Capote on the occasion of Anillo's upcoming
return to Cuba.
November 30 The Council of State announces that Raul Castro will travel to the USSR
to present the Playa Giron Order to Marshall of the Soviet Union Ustinov.
Cuba and the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic sign an
Economic Cooperation Protocol in the domestic trade and local industries
sectors.
December 3
December 5
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Soviet Minister of Defense Marshal Ustinov sends greetings to Raul
Castro on the occasion of the 27th anniversary of the founding of the
Cuban Armed Forces.
Candidate member of the CPSU Central Committee Politburo Kuznetsov
awards the Order of Friendship of Peoples to Anillo Capote, Ambassador
of Cuba to the USSR.
December 7 In a press conference in Prague, Foreign Minister Malmierca says Cuba
believes the deployment of US missiles is a grave and negative step and
Cuba supports the statements of Andropov and the USSR.
December 8 Havana press reports that Cuban technicians in Kiev have completed a 3-
month course studying basic repairs of tractors and harvester engines.
December 10 The Council of State designates Lionel Soto Prieto as Cuba's ambassador
to the USSR.
Army General Aleksandr Terentyevich Altunin, the Soviet Union's chief of
Civil Defense arrives in Havana and is greeted by Division General Senen
Casas, First Vice Minister of the FAR.
December 12 Soviet Procurator General Dr. Aleksandr M. Rekunkov arrives in Havana
and is greeted at Jose Marti Airport by Attorney General Idalberto L. de
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December 16 Fidel Castro meets with Soviet Army General.Altunin, Chief of the Soviet
Union's Civil Defense.
Fidel Castro decorates USSR Minister of Machine Building for Animal
Husbandry and Fodder Production Konstantin Belyak with the Florentino
Alejo Medal.
December 19 Politburo member Pedro Miret Prieto presides at a ceremony in Havana to
present the Rene Ramon Labor Medal to Leonid Nikitovich Kurzin,
chairman of the USSR's Geological Survey Workers Union.
Soviet official Chernenko receives Lionel Soto Prieto in Moscow to discuss
issues of further strengthening of Soviet-Cuban cooperation, as well as
current international problems.
December 20 Ivan Arkhipov, First Deputy Chairman of the USSR's Council of Minis-
ters, addresses a meeting in Moscow commemorating the 25th anniversary
of the Cuban Revolution.
December 28 South African state-run radio accuses the Soviet Union and Cuba of being
behind a push by 1,000 Namibian nationalist guerrillas into Namibia from
Angola.
December 29 Lionel Soto, Cuba's Ambassador to the USSR, presents his credentials to
candidate member of the CPSU Central Committee Politburo Kuznetsov.
December 30 Raul Castro tours the east-central province of Camaguey, bringing
greetings from Fidel and praising the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, and East
Germany for their part in Cuban development.
Member of the Political Bureau of the CPSU Central Committee Vitaliy
Vorotnikov receives the new ambassador to Cuba in the Soviet Union
Lionel Soto Prieto.
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January 12 Fidel Castro meets with Spain's Minister of Culture Javier Solana in
Havana to discuss bilateral relations and the international situation,
especially Central America.
Javier Solana visits places of social and cultural interest in Havana and
lunches with Cuban Minister of Culture Armando Hart before departing
for Madrid.
January 30 Spain's newspaper El Pais announces that Fidel Castro will visit Spain next
autumn and that King Juan Carlos might travel to Cuba even sooner.
February 8 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Spain's Foreign Minister Fernando Moran
discuss topics of international interest dealing with Africa and Latin
America, particularly Central America.
February 22 Oscar Fernandez Mell greets Mr. Joaquin Lopez Menendez, Mayor of La
Coruna, Spain. They exchange keys of their respective cities and Fernan-
dez Mell explains historic facts about Havana.
February 23 Vice President of the National Assembly Jorge Lezcano meets in Madrid
with Senate Vice President Arturo Lizon Jiner and Congress Vice
President Jose Verde Aldea to discuss the legislature.
March 5 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, stopping over at Madrid Airport on his way to
Havana from India, says Fidel Castro intends to come to Spain but that a
date has not been set.
March 12 Minister of Culture Armando Hart, in.Spain to open an exposition of
contemporary Cuban paintings, meets with Spanish Culture Minister
Javier Solana.
March 15 Minister of Culture Armando Hart meets with- Spain's Prime Minister
Felipe Gonzalez to discuss topics of bilateral, political, and cultural
interest, and the situation in Central America.
March 16 Foreign Minister Malmierca, upon arriving in Spain, tells a news confer-
ence that Cuba would welcome Spain's efforts to find a solution to the con-
flict in Central America.
March 17 Foreign Minister Malmierca talks with members of Spain's Foreign
Affairs Committees saying that there are many points of coinciding
interest on which Cuba and Spain can cooperate.
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Minister Felipe Gonzalez and they discuss bilateral relations and the
Seventh Nonaligned Summit Meeting.
March 18 Isidoro Malmierca holds official talks with his Spanish counterpart
Fernando Moran, who presents Malmierca with the highest decoration of
the Order of Isabel the Catholic, the Rand Cross.
March 19 Isidoro Malmierca, conveying greetings and an invitation to visit Cuba to
King Juan Carlos of Spain, reaches agreement on expanding and develop-
ing relations.
March 21 In an interview in France, Armando Hart says that preliminary negotia-
tions are continuing with Sweden, Spain, and France regarding a possible
visit by Fidel Castro to Western Europe.
March 29 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez discusses the situation in Latin America and the
Caribbean and bilateral relations with Lois Yanez Vasnuevo, President of
the Spanish-American Cooperation Institute.
March 30 Foreign Minister Malmierca accuses the US of exerting "a negative
influence" and of being "an obstacle" to peace in Central America in
remarks published by the Spanish weekly Tiempo.
March 31 Cuba and Spain sign a cooperation agreement in Havana.
April 8 Cuban Ambassador to Spain Oscar Garcia signs an intergovernmental
agreement in Madrid for the restructuring of the Cuban debt to Spain.
April 18 At the first working meeting of the Spanish-Cuban Joint Foreign Trade
Commission in. Madrid, Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas reiterates Cuba's
appreciation for the rescheduling of its debt.
April 19 Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas discusses trade matters with Spain's
Economy, Trade, and Finance Minister Miguel Boyer.
Ricardo Cabrizas and Spain's Foreign Bank President Francisco Fernan-
dez Ordonez discuss the level of integration of the Cuban and Spanish
economic sectors.
April 21 Vice President of the State Committee for Economic Cooperation Jose
Fernandez de Cossio and Spanish Ambassador to Cuba Enrique Larroque
sign preliminary papers for expanding technical cooperation.
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Enrique Larroque and Miguel Diaz Pache to discuss trade in the scientific
and technical sphere.
April 22 During meetings in Madrid, Jesus Montane and Spain's Deputy Prime
Minister Alfonso Guerra examine party relations, agree to strengthen
bilateral ties, and discuss international issues.
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May 25
Jesus Montane is received in Madrid by the directorate of the Bartolome
de las Casas Spanish-Cuban Friendship Association to exchange views on
fortifying the bonds of friendship.
Spain grants Cuba a $20 million line of credit for purchases of capital
equipment, transport material, and spare parts; it also agrees to build eight
ships for Cuba.
Vice Foreign Minister Alarcon visits Spain. In an interview granted to El
Pais, he says that Spain plays an important role in the search for a solution
to the conflict in Central America.
Cuba and Spain sign a computer communication pact in Havana that will
implement a pilot system for the transmission of information. by means of
computers.
Jesus Montane welcomes Gerardo Iglesias, Secretary General of the
Spanish Communist Party upon his arrival in Havana from Nicaragua.
Fidel Castro and Gerardo Iglesias, Secretary General of the Spanish
Communist Party discuss the current international situation and bilateral
relations between the two parties.
During his visit to Cuba, Gerardo Iglesias visited Holguin, the Isle of
Youth, and Havana confirming the achievements made by the revolution in
the various sectors of Cuban life.
Jesus Montane accompanies Gerardo Iglesias to Jose Marti International
Airport. Before his departure Iglesias says he was pleasantly impressed by
Cuba and its revolution.
Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Oscar Oramas welcomes an Arab
League delegation, Isam an-Na'ib from Syria, Salah al-abhou from
Yemeni and Ali al-Ista of the Arab League in Madrid, Spain.
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July 26 Madrid press reports that Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize for
Literature, and former Colombian President Michelsen are in Cuba to
discuss peace in Central America with Fidel Castro.
September 12 Minister President of the Cuban State Committee for Economic Coopera-
tion Rodriguez meets in Madrid with Jose Maria Maravall, Spain's
Minister of Education and Science.
Hector Rodriguez Llompart visits Spain to-attend a ministerial meeting in
Madrid on the creation of an international center for genetic engineering
and biotechnology. .
October 7 Three lines of credit for financing Spanish exports to Cuba are signed in
Havana by Spanish banking official Jose Antonio Morales Arran and
Cuba's banking official Jose Vaz Gutierrez.
October 13 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez attends a reception hosted by Enrique Larroque
de la Cruz, Spanish Ambassador to Cuba, on the occasion of Spain's
national day.
October 27 Havana accepts offers from Spain and Colombia to airlift the approximate-
ly 600 Cubans on Grenada back to Cuba or to Barbados.
October 30 In transit in Madrid, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez is interviewed by El Pais; he
stresses that the total number of Cubans on Grenada when the US invasion
took place never reached the amount of 800.
November 11 Madrid press reports on an interview by Carlos Rafael Rodriguez where he
denounces US foreign policy regarding nuclear deployment and comments
on the Contadora process.
November 26 Madrid press announces that a contingent of 2,000 Cuban teachers
returned from Nicaragua following the end of the school year there.
December 14 Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane arrives in Madrid accompanied
by a delegation to participate as guests in the 11th Congress of the Spanish
Communist Party. \
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March 5 Fidel Castro and his delegation, traveling from Havana to New Delhi to at-
tend the 7th Nonaligned Summit Meeting, are accompanied by Grenada's
Prime Minister Bishop and Suriname's strongman Bouterse.
June 24 The Cuban airline Cubana de Aviacion inaugurates its new service from
Havana to Paramaribo, Suriname; the flights will be weekly.
October 26 Suriname asks Cuba to reduce sharply its diplomatic presence and orders
Cuban Ambassador Oscar Osvaldo Cardenas to leave the country.
October 31 In an interview with AFP, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Ricardo
Alarcon termed "regrettable" the decision of Suriname to downgrade
diplomatic relations with Cuba to the charge level.
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January 26 Minister President of the State Committee for Economic Cooperation
Hector Rodriguez Llompart discusses economic cooperation in public
health with Swedish official Stannis Lapate.
February 8 Sweden's Secretary of Foreign Affairs Pierre Schori arrives in Cuba,
where he discusses increasing economic ties and bilateral relations with
Hector Rodriguez Llompart.
February 9 Sweden's Secretary of Foreign Affairs Pierre Schori, Fidel Castro, Isidoro
Malmierca, and Hector Rodriguez Llompart discuss the international
situation and bilateral relations.
March 21
September 7
October 12
October 28
In an interview in France, Armando Hart says that preliminary negotia-
tions are continuing with Sweden, Spain, and France regarding a possible
visit by Fidel Castro to Western Europe.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez discusses health systems and scientific and
technical cooperation with Gertrude Stefensson, Sweden's health and
social affairs minister, during a meeting in Havana.
The Swedish Foreign Ministry announces the visit of Carlos Rafael
Rodriguez to Sweden on 27 and 28 October to lecture at the Foreign Policy
Institute on "Central America: Cuba's Point of View."
At a press conference in Stockholm, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez says the
invasion of Grenada by the US has increased the danger of similar action
by the US in Central America.
In Stockholm, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez also says that Cuba had only 44
military advisers and some 700 Cubans involved in cooperation projects in
Grenada and no Cuban arms caches.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez delivers a message from Fidel Castro to Swedish
Prime Minister Olof Palme thanking him for his criticism of the US
invasion of Grenada; they discuss the Cuban economy.
Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson hosts a ceremony honor-
ing Carlos Rafael Rodriguez; Rodriguez emphasizes how the two countries
agree on rejecting US imperialism.
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March 28 President of the National Assembly Flavio Bravo receives the delegation of
Parliament members of the Swiss Confederation headed by Dr. Richard
Mueller.
March 29 Jesus Montane receives Karl Odermann, member of the Swiss Labor Party
Political Bureau who is visiting Cuba at the invitation of Granma
Newspaper.
May 3 Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas attends a UN Sugar Conference in
Geneva. He discusses the crisis affecting the world's sugar producers with
his Brazilian and Australian counterparts.
May 5 Ricardo Cabrizas, during a meeting of the UN conference on sugar in
Geneva, describes the present sugar market as disastrous for exporters and
potentially dangerous to importers.
September 2 Foreign Minister Malmierca meets with PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat at aUN Conference in Geneva, where they discuss the Middle East, particular-
ly Lebanon, and bilateral relations.
Foreign Minister Malmierca meets with PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat at
the UN Conference on the Palestinian Issue in Geneva; they discuss the
Middle East, Lebanon and bilateral relations.
September 30 Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas, in a speech to the world sugar confer=ence in Geneva, blames the European Economic Community for the failure
of the meeting.
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February 9 Jesus Montane arrives in Syria and is welcomed by Ba'th party National
Command leader Muhammad Haydar.
February 11 The first session of Cuban-Syrian talks open in Damascus. Jesus Montane
and Ba'th Party National Command member Muhammad Haydar discuss
the situation in Latin America.
Jesus Montane discusses the Nonaligned Movement's 7th summit meeting
with Syria's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Faruq ash-Shar.
February 12 Jesus Montane and Syria's President Hafiz al-Assad discuss strengthening
bilateral cooperation before Montane leaves on 13 February.
February 17 In an interview for the Syrian newspaper Al-Bath, Jesus Montane says the
Reagan Administration is provoking a spiraling increase in the arms race.
April 27 Syrian News Agency reports.on a message from Fidel Castro to President
Hafiz.al-Assad expressing Cuba's solidarity with Syria in the face of
aggression from Israel and the United States.
June 20 Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Oscar Oramas welcomes an Arab
League delegation, Isam an-Na'ib from Syria, Salah al-abhou from
Yemeni and Ali al-Ista of the Arab League in Madrid, Spain.
July 5
July 17
Fidel Castro sends a message to Syrian President Hafiz al-Asad asking
him to avoid any action that may provoke a dramatic confrontation with
Palestine.
The Palestinian news agency reports that Yasir Arafat received a message
from Fidel Castro asking Arafat "to avoid anything that may provoke a
Syrian-Palestinian confrontation."
Levi Farah and, Syrian President Hafiz al-Asad discuss bilateral coopera-
tion and the situation in the Middle East and Latin America, particularly
Central America and the Caribbean.
Minister of Construction Abroad Levi Farah delivers a message from Fidel
Castro to Syrian President Hafiz al-Asad.
PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat and Minister of Construction Abroad Levi
Farah discuss Cuba's efforts to solve the current crisis between Syria and
the PLO in a meeting in Tunis.
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July 30
Syrian Prime Minister Abd ar-Ra'uf al-Kasm receives Levi Farah in
Damascus; they discuss the situation in the Middle East and the occupa-
tion of southern Lebanon by Israeli aggressors.
Minister of Construction Abroad Levi Farah gives a message from Fidel
Castro to Syrian Prime Minister Abd ar-Ra'uf al-Kasm for President
Hafiz al-Asad.
Jesus Montane and Muhammad Najib Ahmad, member of the Ba'th
Central Committee sign a cooperation agreement in Havana with Syria's
Arab Socialist Renaissance Party-Ba'th-for 1983-84.
Tunis press announces that Levi Farah proposed to Yasir Arafat that a
meeting be held in Havana between representatives of Fatah, Syria, the
USSR, and Cuba to discuss the PLO-Syrian dispute.
September 22 Minister of Construction Abroad Levi Farah arrives in Damascus.
October 1 Levi Farah and Syria's Minister Kamal Sharaf sign an agreement in
Damascus establishing the CubanSyrian Joint Intrgovernmental Commis-
sion for Economic and Scientific-Technical Cooperation.
October 3 Palestinian sources affirm that Levi Farah carried a message to the two
disputing Fatah parties in Damascus requesting they meet in Cuba to
continue efforts to end their dispute.
October 22 Central Trade Union official Roberto Veiga speaks at the 30th meeting of
the WFTU Bureau meeting in Damascus voicing support for the Palestin-
ian people, Syria, and other forces against the US.
November 28 People's Assembly Speaker Mahmud az-Zu'bi receives Cuban Ambassa-
dor to Damascus Lester Rodriguez who bids him farewell prior to ending
his tour in Syria.
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Tanzania
The Tanzania News Agency Shihata and Prensa Latina sign a one-year
agreement for news exchange between them and to open offices in each
other's capital cities.
During a visit to Dar es Salaam by Prensa Latina director Gustavo
Roberto Dolz, an accord covering the interchange of reports and correspon-
dents is. signed by Shihata and Prensa Latina news.
April 26 Minister President of the Cuban State Committee for Standardization
Ramon Darias heads the Cuban delegation to the sixth Cuban-Tanzanian
intergovernmental talks in Tanzania.
During bilateral cooperation talks in Tanzania, Ramon Darias states that
from Septmber 1974 to date some 500 Cuban technicians have provided
assistance to Tanzania.
April 28
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Tanzanian Minister of Economic Affairs and
.Planning Kighoma Malima discuss the international economic situation
during meetings in Havana.
Politburo alternate member Montane discusses bilateral relations and
international matters with Sheikh- Seid Sharif Amau, member of the
Revolutionary Party of Tanzania in Havana.
November 10 The Council of State designates Luis Castillo Campos as the Cuban
ambassador to Tanzania.
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September 13 Vudhi Chuchom' presents his credentials as the new ambassador from
'Thailand to Cuba.
October 13 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives the credentials of the new Thai Ambas-
sador to Cuba Wutthi Chuchom.
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July 23 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives the credentials of Dodridge Alleyne
accrediting him as the new ambassador from Trinidad and Tobago.
October 29 The Trinidad and Tobago Government grants permission for the "Vietnam
Heroico" to berth for water and stores in preparation for the repatriation' of
Cubans from Grenada.
November 18 According to a press report in Kingston, Cuba has brought 60,000 tons of
wire rods from Trinidad's state-owned steel mill.
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July 30
Tunisia
PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat and Minister of Construction Abroad Levi
Farah discuss Cuba's efforts to solve the current crisis between Syria and
the PLO in a meeting in Tunis.
Tunis press announces that Levi Farah proposed to Yasir Arafat that a
meeting be held in Havana between representatives of Fatah, Syria, the
USSR, and Cuba to discuss the PLO-Syrian dispute.
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March 11 President Kenan Evren of Turkey receives the credentials of Ramon
Tespero as the new Cuban ambassador to Ankara.
December 18 Cuba, through UN delegate Raul Roa Kouri, calls for the UN Security
Council to condemn the declaration issued by the Turkish Cypriot
leadership on the partitioning of Cyprus into two states.
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March 2 After a one-week visit to Cuba, nine religious leaders from Great Britain
hold a press conference in Havana expressing satisfaction with Cuba's
revolutionary achievements, peace, and disarmament.
March 29 The president of the Cuban Chamber of Commerce, Jose Diaz Mirabal,
and David Thomas, British ambassador to Cuba, sign a document
establishing a committee to expand trade.
July 6 Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas, at a UN conference on sugar in London,
outlines Cuba's basic principles for the new international sugar agreement.
August 22 William MacKibley of the British Labor Party discusses closer relations
between the two parliaments with members of the National Assembly of
the People's Government in Havana. .
September 22 Foreign Relations Vice Minister Ricardo Alarcon tells the London press
that Cuba does not supply weapons to the Salvadoran guerrillas.
Ricardo Alarcon tells the London press that Cuba is prepared to send more
troops if Angola requests them.
Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Ricardo Alarcon arrives in London to
attend an international conference on Central America and the Caribbean;
he meets with Lady Young, British Minister of State.
October 19 Minister of Culture Armando Hart receives Anthony Benn, member of the
Executive Committee of the Labor Party of Great Britain to discuss Cuban
culture and world peace.
October 22 Vice President of the National Assembly Jorge Lezcano explains the
structure and functions of the National Assembly to UK Labor Party
leader Anthony Benn during a meeting in Havana.
October 25 In an interview broadcast in Britain, Jamaican Prime Minister Edward
Seaga says that twelve Cuban soldiers were killed opposing the US-led
invasion of Grenada.
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Diallo, who conveyed a message from the President of the National
Council of the Revolution, Thomas Sankara.
Upper Volta
September 27 Vice Minister of External Relations Oscar Oramas arrives in Upper Volta
and discusses current issues and means to strengthen friendship with Upper
Volta official Thomas Sankara.
November 11 The Central Committee announces that Eduardo E. Baibin Martin has
been named as the Cuban Ambassador to Upper Volta.
Foreign Minister Malmierca gives a cocktail party in honor of Upper
Voltan Foreign Minister Hama. Arba Diallo and the delegation accompa-
nying him on his official visit to Cuba.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with Upper Volta's Foreign Minister
Hama Arba Diallo in Havana to discuss various international topics,
especially those dealing with Africa and Latin America.
December 22 The Foreign Minister of Upper Volta, Hama Arba Diallo signed five .
agreements dealing with economic, scientific and technical cooperation,
cultural, and exchange between Foreign Ministries.
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January 7 Fidel Castro decorates the outstanding intellectuals Gabriel Garcia Mar-
quez of Colombia, Mario Benedetti of Uruguay and Pablo Casanova of
Mexico with the Felix Varela Order, first class.
June 17-29 A solidarity drive with Uruguay is held nationwide, marking the anniversa-
ry of a general labor strike which occurred in Uruguay 10 years ago.
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January 11
United States
At, a press conference for Colombian journalists in Havana, Fidel Castro
says the US has been "systematically opposed" to a "political solution" for
peace in Central America.
The State Department announces that the Soviet Union shipped about 50
Mig fighter planes to Cuba last year, raising the total number of Migs in
Cuba's possession to between 200 and 300.
January 12
January 13
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January 30
January 31
February 4
February 9
February 14-16
February 17 .
Raul Castro says that the US Government has used all of its power to fo-
ment the destabilization of Poland during a meeting with representatives of
the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR).
At the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Juan Almeida
says Cuba rejects the US proposal linking the withdrawal of Cuban. troops
from Angola with Namibian Independence.
Vilma Espin attends the meetings of the UN Advisory Council of the
International Institute for the Status of Women in New York. She is
elected vice-president of the council.
According to officials who caught one group of would-be immigrants at
Miami International Airport, Cuban refugees in Peru are using black-
market passports and phony visas to come to the US.
Jesus Montane ends his visit to Algeria. A joint communique is issued
condemning US aggression, especially in Latin America and the Caribbe-
an, and stressing peace in the Middle East.
Cuba condemns the Reagan Administration for endangering "peace in the
region" by conducting a US-Honduran military exercise near the Nicara-
guan border.
A State Department spokesman accuses the Castro Government of "fla-
grant intervention" in the internal affairs of other nations and rules out im-
proved relations under these circumstances.
Occupational health professionals of the US and Cuba hold meetings in
Havana to discuss the risks of using pesticides in agriculture as well as in
public health.
In an interview for the Syrian newspaper Al-Bath, Jesus Montane says the
Reagan Administration is provoking a spiraling increase in the arms race.
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February 26
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March 7
March 12
March 13
March 16
March 18
During a meeting of the UN Security Council, Raul Roa Kouri condemns
US aggression toward Libya and expresses unswerving solidarity with the
Libyan people.
Senator Hawkins of Florida introduces a measure to set up a new US
Government facility-Radio Marti-that will be broadcast to Cuba over a
single AM frequency by the Voice of America station.
In a speech in Paris, Juan Jose Leon blames the US for the intensification
of tensions on the Korean Peninsula and reiterates Cuba's support and
solidarity with the just demands of the DPRK.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, in an interview with the Mexican newspaper Uno
Mas Uno, says that Cuba is prepared to assume its commitment for peace
in El Salvador as long as the US does likewise.
Fidel Castro, addressing the Nonaligned Movement meeting in New Delhi,
accuses the US Administration of instructing the CIA to resume plans to
kill Cuban leaders.
Fidel Castro and Erich Honecker, after discussing bilateral relations and
other matters of mutual interests, issue a joint communique condemning
US aggression.
The Communist Party of Argentina demands that US Ambassador to
Argentina Harry Schlaudeman be declared persona non grata for accusing
Cuba of interfering in Argentina's domestic affairs.
John Ferch, head of the US Interests Section in Havana, says that "Cuba
is a danger to peace in the region," during a seminar in Havana attended
by international specialists.
Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Pelegrin Torras attacks the US position
on sea convention during a meeting in Jamaica.
March 22 The Mexican newspaper El Dia reports Malmierca's expression of Cuban
willingness to hold a dialogue with the US on the basis of "equality, mutual
respect, and regard for Cuban sovereignty."
March 23 The Pentagon announces that the Soviet Union has sent a record number
of Bear reconnaissance aircraft to Cuba, apparently to monitor a major
exercise by US and allied Navies in the Caribbean.
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Paris L'Humanite interviews Armando Hart on US intervention in Central
America and the Caribbean and the recent Nonaligned Summit meeting in
New Delhi.
March 24 The State Department announces that Cubana Airlines has been barred
from flying over US airspace for two weeks because of air safety violations
near Griffiss Air Force Base in New York.
March 26 Wayne Smith, former chief of the US Interests Section in Havana,
accompanies Senator Lowell Weicker of Connecticut to Cuba, where
Weicker will talk with Fidel Castro on marine science.
March 26-29
March 27
March 30
April 2
April 5
April 6
April 7
Ambassador to the UN Raul Roa Kouri warns the US that the Cuban peo-
ple are well-armed and ready to make imperialism pay at a very high price
any attempt of aggression.
Senator Lowell Weicker meets with Fidel Castro, who says he is eager to
find solutions to problems between-the US and Cuba on a variety of issues,
including El Salvador and Nicaragua.
Fidel Castro sends a message to the International Conference of Solidarity
with the Frontline States being held in Lisbon supporting the Frontline
States and condemning US aggression.
Foreign Minister Malmierca accuses the US of exerting "a negative
influence" and of being "an obstacle" to peace in Central America in
remarks published by the Spanish weekly Tiempo.
Senator Lowell Weicker of Connecticut announces that three American
women, jailed in Cuba for almost a year for drug trafficking, will be
released and returned to Florida.
Former Cuban agent Mario Estevez Gonzalez testifies in New York that
the Cuban Government has reaped millions of dollars smuggling drugs into
the US through a network of 400 undercover agents.
Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas blasts the US at the Group of 77
Meeting in Buenos Aires and reaffirms support of Argentina's sovereignty
over the Malvinas Islands.
Three American women, jailed in Cuba for almost a year for drug
trafficking, arrive in Key West, Florida.
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April 12 Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Thomas Enders
warns that any escalation of the conflict in Nicaragua by the Soviet Union
or Cuba would create a "dangerous situation."
Jose Fernandez addresses the opening session of the NAM Nuclear Energy
meeting charging the US and other capitalist nations of obstructing the
peaceful uses of nuclear energy in the Third World.
April 18 The US refuses to allow Cuba's Cultural Vice Minister Garcia Espinosa
into the US to attend a film festival in Los Angeles.
The US orders the expulsion of two UN diplomats, Third Secretary
Rolando Salup-Canto and Attache Joaquin Rodobaldo Penton-Cejas,
because of alleged "hostile intelligence activities."
A senior Pentagon official says that if the Soviet Union sought to put
nuclear missiles into the Caribbean area, the Reagan administration would
take forceful measures to force their withdrawal.
April 20
April 21
April 26
Cuba condemns the US for its "despicable" action in ordering two Cuban
diplomats at the UN to leave the country; the US rejects Cuba's appeal,
against the expulsion.
Cuba's Cultural Vice Minister Garcia Espinosa refuses a visa to attend a
Los Angeles international film festival and accuses the US of trying to
stifle a free exchange of views.
The Cuban newspaper Granma reports charges that a US Air Force SR-71
violated Cuban airspace on 19 April during celebrations for the 22nd
anniversary of the Bay of Pigs.
The Subcommittee on International Operations of the House of Represen-
tatives Foreign Affairs Committee approves plans to set up a "free Cuba"
radio station.
April 30
The State Department announces the reinstatement of travel restrictions
on Cuba's UN diplomats to an area within 25 miles of New York City.
State Department official James H. Michel in a State hearing charges the
Cuban Government, including Fidel Castro, is involved in smuggling drugs
to the United States.
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May 3
A Capital Airlines aircraft, diverted after takeoff from Puerto Rico, is
hijacked to Cuba, where the hijacker surrenders to local authorities; the
plane and passengers return to the US on 2 May.
Politburo alternate member Roberto Veiga, delivering the keynote address
during May Day celebrations, describes President Reagan's speech on 27
April as being "full of lies and hypocrisy."
Havana identifies the individual who hijacked the US aircraft on 1 May as
Rigoberto Gonzalez Sanchez, of Cuban nationality, who left the country
legally in 1969.
May 6
May 12,
May 13
May 17
May 20
May 21
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez addresses French newsmen in Havana saying
that "solutions to the problems in Central America would be easier to find
without Washington's manipulations."
During a speech to the National Rifle Association, President Reagan
accuses high-level Cuban Government officials of being involved in
smuggling drugs into the United States.
Capital Airlines Flight 236 from San Juan to Miami is hijacked to Cuba,
where the hijacker surrenders to local authorities; the plane and passengers
return to Miami on 13 May.
Defense Secretary Weinberger, speaking at the annual meeting of the
Business Council, says the US would act to block any attempt by the
USSR to deploy its new SS-20 missile in Cuba.
In a speech in Bonn, Ricardo Alarcon says that Cuba is willing to
contribute to the normalization of relations with the US if the US radically
modifies its economic blockade policy.
President Reagan, speaking in Miami, claims there is strong evidence that
some high Cuban officials are involved in the drug trade and condemns
Havana as a new fascist regime.
Reacting to President Reagan's Miami speech, Granma says that "never
before has an American President lied so much in so short a time.. .nor de-
ceived his own people and the Congress."
May 22 Senator Barry Goldwater, on the TV show "Face the Nation," says the US
should invade Cuba and that Cuba ought to be the 51st state.
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Senator Goldwater also says the US should send ships and planes to the
Caribbean to stop arms shipments from Cuba and Nicaragua to Salvador-
an guerrillas.
May 23 Foreign Minister Malmierca departs Paris for New York to participate in
the UN Security Council's special meeting in Namibia.
May 25
Assistant Secretary Enders meets with the head of the Cuban Interests
Section to request that Cuba accept the return of several hundred Cubans
who-came to the US during the 1980 boatlift.
The Miami Herald reports that about nine of the 29 Cubans being held in
_Jamaica, who hijacked a boat 10 months ago to escape Cuba, may soon be
agraifted permanent residence in Canada.
May 26 Thousands of Cuban workers, peasants, students, Pioneers, Federation of
Cuban Women members, and housewives demonstrate against statements
made by President Reagan and Senator Goldwater.
Havana radio notes that the US has banned the import of Japanese
stainless steel goods containing Cuban nickel beginning 1 June.
Central Committee member Lionel Soto opens the international scientific
meeting in Havana and criticizes recent statements on Cuba made by
President Reagan and Senator Goldwater.
May 27
May 28
The Reagan administration charges Cuba with expanding "political-
military activism" in Central America; that Cubans, Nicaraguans, and
Salvadoran guerrillas are planning attacks in the region.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez is awarded the title of professor emeritus by the
rector of the University of Havana; during a speech he denounces the US.
Foreign Minister Malmierca, in Cartagena, says his country might recon-
sider the presence of its military advisers in Nicaragua, "if the US
withdraws its own from El Salvador and Honduras."
National Assembly President Flavio Bravo, during his visit to the USSR,
says that the Cubans are determined to turn their country into another
Stalingrad if the imperialists dare attack them.
Committees for the Defense of the Revolution call their members to
announce that Cuba has been preparing since the end of May to repel an
armed attack "from the fascist US Administration."
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"Ocean Merchant," a 4,000-ton Greek-owned freighter carrying Cuban
cement to Algeria, is detained in San Juan for unauthorized entry into the
US port, according to US Coast Guard officials.
June 8-9 The Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs
Committee approve a bill authorizing the operation of government-
sponsored radiobroadcasts to Cuba-Radio Marti.
June 9 Before a plenary session of the sixth UNCTAD Conference in Belgrade,
Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas demands an end to coercive
economic measures that are being applied by the US.
June 15 Meeting in Havana with AP executives, Carlos,Rafael Rodriguez says US-
Cuban relations are at their lowest level in 23.;years and the threat of mili-
tary action is "hanging" overhead.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez tells AP executives-,that Cuba "is willing to
discuss" emigration, radiojamming, and other issues with the US "without
any preconditions other than mutual respect.
An Eastern Airlines aircraft, enroute from Miami to New York, is
hijacked to Cuba, where the hijacker surrenders to Cuban authorities; the
plane leaves for La Guardia Airport.
Cuban delegate to the 69th ILO Conference in Havana Osmel Francis de
los Reyes denounces capitalist exploitation in their relations with underde-
veloped nations.
The US Supreme Court rules, 6-3, against Cuba in settling a 20-year-old
dispute stemming from Fidel Castro's nationalization of American banks
following the revolution.
June 18 Havana press announces the arrival of a delegation of US independent
radiobroadcasters.
Cuban churches and ecumenical groups release a document condemning
recent attacks by President Reagan and Senator Barry Goldwater against
Cuba.
Havana press. reports on plans for US military ~ maneuvers, "Quick
Rescue," in the Caribbean.
The New York Times reports that Cuba's top combat commander, General
Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, has been secretly assigned to Nicaragua, thus
expanding Cuba's military role in Central America.
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The Miami Herald reports that Fidel Castro's spy network is so extensive
that it has infiltrated virtually every anti-Castro organization in the US.
The State Department announces that it has information that Cuban
General Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez is in Nicaragua and that he has military
duties there.
Vice Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon receives the 14 representatives of
US independent broadcasting stations who have been visiting Cuba since
18 June.
Foreign Minister Malmierca accuses the US of installing a military base in
Honduras while participating in the eighth seminar of Latin American
journalists in Havana from 11-20 June.
July 1
July 2
July 7
Cuban authorities announce that future aircraft hijackers face prison
sentences of 12 to 20 years instead of the three-year average in force since
1980.
Flavio Bravo and Carlos Andres Perez also discuss President Reagan's and
Senator Goldwater's threats against Cuba and express concern over the
US-supported escalation of aggression against Nicaragua.
Cuba informed the US on 17 June of its willingness to discuss the Cuban
refugee situation as part of overall negotiations for "normalization of
migration," according to US officials.
During a press conference in Caracas, Flavio Bravo blames the US for the
tension prevailing in the Central American and Caribbean region.
Jesus Montane, speaking at a ceremony held to launch the 26 July
ideological drive, condemns US aggression and says naming the anti-
Cuban station Radio Marti is "political ignorance."
In an interview from Havana, Julio Seda says the Cuban national team has
withdrawn from the Coors International Bicycle Classic in Colorado
because the US State Department cancelled their visas.
A Pan Am jetliner, flying between Miami and Orlando, is hijacked to
Cuba by two male Mariel refugees, who surrender to Cuban authorities;
the aircraft, passengers, and crew return to Miami.
An Air Florida Boeing 737 jet, enroute from Tampa to Fort Lauderdale, is
hijacked to Cuba where the hijacker, a US national, surrenders to Cuban
authorities; the aircraft returns to Miami.
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July 11
Havana press notes the US supreme Court decision, by a 7-2 vote, to
maintain restrictions implemented last year regarding travel by US citizens
to Cuba.
Cuban performers from the Aragon Orchestra, the Bravo Brothers,
Caridad Cuerda, and members of the Nova Trova Vicente Feliu, Anabel
Lopez, and Donato Covera depart for the US to perform.
July 13 A Cuban cultural delegation visiting the US performs for the first time at
the Village Gate night club in New York City:
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July 19
A Delta Airlines Boeing 727 from Miami to Tampa is hijacked to Cuba by
four males and three females who are arrested in Havana by Cuban
authorities; the aircraft returns to the US.
An Eastern Airlines L-111 flying from New York to Miami is hijacked to
Cuba, where the hijackers is taken into custody; the aircraft returns to
Miami.
The State Department repeats its appeal to Cuba to accept the return of
undesirable Cuban exiles, saying their continued presence in the US may
have contributed to the recent spate of hijackings.
Radio Havana criticizes President Reagan's creation of a bipartisan
committee, chaired by former Secretary of State Kissinger, to study
troubled Central America.
July 20 A House subcommittee recommends that Congress reject the proposed.US-
sponsored Radio Marti broadcasts to Cuba.
July 21
July 22
A former Cuban political prisoner tries to hijack a Northwest Orient
Airlines flight bound for Miami, but is subdued by a flight attendant and
two passengers.
US Pentagon officials report that Soviet arms shipments to Cuba are down,
with only 20,000 metric tons of military equipment arriving in Cuba during
the first six months of 1983.
Eduardo Arocena, believed to be the leader of Omega 7, is arrested by the
FBI in Miami and charged with attempting to assassinate Cuba's UN
Ambassador Raul Roa Kouri three years ago.
At a press conference in Havana, Ricardo Alarcon says that as long as the
US Government refuses to recognize the Cuban Revolution, it is impossible
to consider an improvement in bilateral relations.
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Deputy Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon says that the US Government is
responsible for the fact that the bilateral air piracy agreement has been
rendered ineffective.
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July 26
July 28
July 29
In Luanda, the Cuban Ambassador to Angola says the US and South
Africa are trying to deceive the world by linking the independence of
Namibia to the presence of Cuban troops in Angola.
Speaking on the 30th Anniversary of the Revolution, Fidel Castro supports
the" Contadora initiative on negotiations for peace and accuses the US of
being the cause of tension in the region.
At a` press conference in Santiago, Deputy Foreign Minister Alarcon says
that Cuba would regard a US blockade or naval quarantine of Nicaragua
as an "act of war."
The New York Times reports that former Salvadoran guerrilla Arqui
medes Canadas, in an interview in the US, says that Cuba has "directed
the activities" of the insurgency in El Salvador since 1980.
In response to a statement by Fidel Castro on 28 July, the US says it would
agree to a mutual withdrawal of military personnel from Central America
"under verifiable and reciprocal conditions."
The reputed head of the anti-Castro terrorist group Omega 7, agrees to go
to New York and face charges in the attempted bombing of the Cuban am-
bassador's car in 1980.
July 30
The State Department announces that the Cuban Government has request-
ed that a marine guard at the US diplomatic office in Havana return home
for wearing an anti-Castro T-shirt.
August 2 Senator Howard Baker reports that President Reagan plans to vigorously
pursue Fidel Castro's recent peace overtures regarding peace in Central
America.
TASS reports on US Senator McGovern's press conference in Washington
and his talks with Fidel Castro in Havana. McGovern feels Cuba is ready
to discuss bilateral problems with the US.
August 3 In his speech commemorating Cuba's "Labor Youth Army," Raul Castro
charges the US with commiting a "virtual act of war" against Nicaragua
by reinforcing its military presence in Central America.
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August 4 A US jetliner, Capitol Flight 235, enroute to Miami from Puerto Rico, is
hijacked to Cuba, where the hijacker surrenders to the authorities; the
plane's tires need repair before takeoff to US.
August 6 In a statement issued in Havana, the Cuban Movement for Peace and
Sovereignty of Peoples expresses its support of the Nicaraguan revolution
and condemns US escalation in Central America.
August 11 Prensa Latina publishes the full text of talks between Fidel Castro and
French journalists, in which Castro places full responsibility for the tense
situation in Central America on the US.
August 13 Granma accuses the US of "spending two months preparing the military
coup that brought General Oscar Humberto Mejia Victores to power" in
Guatemala.
August 14-21 Methodist Church members from the US, Africa, GDR, and Latin
America, invited by their Cuban counterparts, visit Cuba to commemorate
the 100th anniversary of the founding of their church.
August 18 A Delta Airlines jet, Flight 784, enroute from Miami to Tampa, is hijacked
to Cuba, where the hijacker surrenders to the authorities; the aircraft
returns to Tampa on 19 August.
August 20 Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nhuyen Co Thach, while visiting Havana,
says that if the US intervenes in Central America it will suffer a defeat
several times worse than it suffered in Vietnam.
August 25 Foreign Minister Malmierca and Poland's Foreign Minister Olszowski
express concern over the deployment of 572 new US medium-range
missiles in various countries of Western Europe.
September 5 Prensa Latina claims the US is directly involved in the disappearance of
South Korean Airlines Flight 07.
September 8 During a meeting in Havana, PCC member Jorge Risquet and Angolan
Minister of External Relations Paulo Jorge condemn the US stand on
independence for Namibia.
September 9 US Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Asencio says US officials have
started talks with Cuba in an attempt to persuade Fidel Castro to take
back some of the 4,000 criminals sent in 1980.
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The Foreign Ministry condemns the anti-Sandinista bombing attack on
Nicaragua's Sandino Airport on 8 September as "US-inspired aggression"
designed to wreck regional peace talks.
September 14 Havana press announces the US Senate's approval of Radio Marti, which
will broadcast 14 hours daily on the AM band from facilities on Marathon
Key, Florida.
September 15 The Cuban newspaper Granma accuses Honduran military strongman
Gustavo Alvarez of acting as an American puppet in Central America.
In a press conference in Havana, Nora Astorga discusses the current
political situation in Nicaragua, denounces US aggression, and agrees with
the concept of the Contadora Group meeting.
September 21 President Reagan speaks with out-of-town journalists saying the US is
prepared to improve relations with Fidel Castro, but only if he comes "out
from under the wing of the Soviet Union."
The alleged head of the anti-Castro group Omega Seven voluntarily tells
the FBI about his associates' plot to kill Fidel Castro in 1979 and the mur-
der of a Cuban diplomat in New York.
September 22 American Airlines flight 625 from New York to St. Thomas is hijacked to
Cuba, where the hijacker surrenders to the authorities; the airliner leaves
for Puerto Rico.
September 23 First Vice Minister of Transportation Manuel Cespedes defends Cuba's
anti-hijacking policies and accuses the US of encouraging hijackings when
they started in the early 1970s.
Senator Gary Hart of Colorado says the US should "challenge" Fidel
Castro to sit down and talk peace in Central America.
September 25 The Cuban Union of Young Communists, in a statement issued by its
national council, reiterates support for the groups seeking Puerto Rican
independence.
September 26 Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega calls for an end to the US blockade of
Cuba and withdrawal from the Guantanamo Naval Base during a meeting
in New York of member states of the Nonaligned Movement.
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September 28 At the Mexican Senate, Flavio Bravo says the US should demonstrate with
actions that it supports the Contadora Group; a great gesture would be for
the US to withdraw troops from Honduras.
September 29 The House gives final Congressional approval to legislation creating Radio
Marti, a Voice of America Broadcast Service.
In a statement released in Havana, the AfroAsian-Latin American Peo-
ple's Solidarity Organization denounces US aggression in Lebanon.
October 4 At the UN, Foreign Minister Malmierca says that the Reagan Adminis-
tration used the shooting down of a South Korean airliner by the Soviets
last month to justify an arms buildup.
In an address to the UN General Assembly, Foreign Minister Malmierca
says that "while the world yearns for peace, the US moves toward war,"
and he condemns US intervention in Central America.
TASS reports President Reagan signs a bill creating Radio Marti.
October 5 Politburo alternate member Antonio Perez Herrero tells Prensa Latina
that Radio Marti broadcasts will amount to a counterrevolutionary attack
that Cuba would not accept "with crossed arms."
October 6 An article in Granma blames the CIA for the "Barbados Crime," which
took place seven years ago when a Cubana Airlines plane exploded in flight
after taking off from Bridgetown airport.
October 7 Deputy Foreign Minister Oscar Oramas, while meeting with newsmen in
Accra, calls on progressive forces throughout the world to unite in the fight
against imperialist domination.
In a ceremony for the victims of the plane crash in Barbados in 1976, Ri-
cardo Alarcon links that incident to the downing of the Korean plane on 7
September 1983-blaming the US.
October 8 The Ghana-Cuba Friendship Association condemns US continued criminal
actions in Central and South America during a statement marking the
16th anniversary of the death of Che Guevara.
October 10 In an interview granted to the Mexican newspaper El Universal, Carlos
Rafael Rodriguez states that the danger of a military confrontation in
Central America is due to US aggression.
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October 13 Havana press charges US authorities with attempting to hide the truth
about the participation of the CIA in the deaths in Guyana in 1978 of
members of the People's Temple, a US religious sect.
October 14 Eumelio Caballero Rodriguez, Cuban representative to the Decolonization
Committee meeting of the UN, accuses the US of trying to deny the
inalienable right of the Micronesian people to independence.
October 15 Havana press reports that Nicaragua alleges the CIA and the Reagan
Administration were responsible for the 10 October attack on Corinto,
Nicaragua's most important seaport.
October 16 Politburo alternate member Antonio Perez Herrero delivers the speech
closing the Cuban Literature Forum. The closing session condemns the
decision of the US Congress to establish Radio Marti.
October 18 During a meeting of socialist youth media leaders, President of the Cuban
Institute of Friendship With Peoples Rene Rodriguez denounces the policy
of threats being used by the US administration.
At a banquet in China, Ricardo Cabrizas denounces growing US imperial-
ism and its political blackmail and economic blockades in international
trade.
October 19 In a speech at the 37th CEMA Meeting in East Germany, Carlos Rafael
Rodriguez speaks about the tense world political situation and the hard line
of the Reagan administration.
October 20 Cuban representative at the UN Nestor Garcia Iturbe accuses the US of
conducting aggressive military maneuvers throughout the world that
increases the threat of nuclear war.
October 22 Fidel Castro tells Cuban representatives in Grenada that planning to
evacuate Cuban personnel from the island when US forces were approach-
ing would be demoralizing and dishonorable.
Fidel Castro tells Cuban representatives in Grenada that if US forces land
to evacuate their citizens, Cuban personnel should refrain from interfering.
Fidel Castro also tells the Cuban representatives in Grenada that if the US
intervenes, "we must vigorously defend ourselves as if we were in Cuba,
but only if we are directly attacked."
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Cuba sends a message through the US Interests Section in Havana to
inform Washington of Cuba's determination to not interfere in the internal
affairs of Grenada.
Central Trade Union official Roberto Veiga speaks at the 30th meeting of
the WFTU Bureau meeting in Damascus voicing support for the Palestin-
ian people, Syria, and other forces against the US.
Havana press announces that a US naval force, composed of the aircraft
carrier Independence and other warships andicarrying some 2,000 Ma-
rines, is heading toward Grenada.
October 25 Havana International Service reports that Grenada is being invaded by US
troops, and CBS notes that the US forces are,accompanied by troops from
Jamaica, Antigua, Barbados, and St. Vincent.,..
The US Government, through the US Interests Section in Havana, sends a
message saying that "Cuban personnel stationed in Grenada are not the
target of US troop action there."
Prensa Latina reports that Fidel Castro urged the Cubans on Grenada to
avoid surrender "under any conditions," and that the Castro Government
had formally requested the US to end the operations.
Radio Havana reports that Cuban workers on Grenada "are resisting
heroically the attacks of the US Army and Navy," and that they have suf-
fered casualties.
Nicaragua requests an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council to-
discuss the situation in Grenada, while Cuban Ambassador Raul Roa
Kouri condemns "the US imperialist government."
Havana press reports that Colonel Tortolo, in command of a group of
Cuban construction workers resisting the US-led forces on Grenada, has
been ordered not to surrender.
Prensa Latina reports that American troops in the multinational force
invading Grenada were attacking camps and work sites of Cubans
stationed there to help build a new airport.
In an interview broadcast in Britain; Jamaican Prime Minister Edward
Seaga says that twelve Cuban soldiers were killed opposing the US-led
invasion of Grenada.
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Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Paul Verner, member of Germany's Socialist
Unity Party Politburo discuss, in Berlin, the situation in Grenada and that
the US invasion will meet with rejection.
Deputy Foreign Minister Alarcon, in a reply to foreign newsmen in
Havana, says the US reported its invasion of Grenada after the attack
begun and that it was a "cunning" surprise attack.
October 26 The Cuban Government announces that the last Cuban resistance on
Grenada against the US-led intervention has ended.
In his press conference, Fidel Castro condemned the invasion of Grenada
as, an;"enormous political error" and called the US to halt its attack on the
island.
Minister of Culture Armando Hart, speaking before the 22nd session of
UNESCO's General Conference in Paris, demands an immediate end to
the US intervention in Grenada.
October 27 Havana press reports of demonstrations throughout Cuba protesting US
aggression in Grenada and of admiration of the Cuban construction
workers and collaborators in Grenada.
Prensa Latina reports that US residents in Cuba condemned the US
intervention in Grenada and demanded that Washington withdraw its
troops from the eastern Caribbean island.
There were demonstrations against the US aggression in Grenada in all the
provinces, municipalities, and student and labor organizations in Cuba,
according to reports from Havana.
October 28 At a press conference in Stockholm, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez says the
invasion of Grenada by the US has increased the danger of similar action
by the US in Central America.
In a TV interview in Cuba, Ricardo Alarcon calls President Reagan a
"liar" for saying Cuba had established a military base on Grenada with
warehouses crammed with weapons.
Cuba denies President Reagan's charge that Cuba was building a big
military complex on Grenada.
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Minister of Culture Armando Hart arrives in Rome to open a study
seminar on Jose Marti; he says the Reagan administration committed a
"political error," in Grenada.
Chairman of the Provisional Military Administrative Council Mengistu
Haile Mariam sends a condolence letter to Fidel Castro over the deaths of
the Cubans in Grenada and condemns US aggression.
Congolese Foreign Minister Pierre Nze meets with the press before he
departs Havana to condemn the US invasion-of Grenada.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez delivers a message from Fidel Castro to Swedish
Prime Minister Olof Palme thanking him for his criticism of the US
invasion of Grenada; they discuss the Cuban economy.
Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson hosts a ceremony honor-
ing Carlos Rafael Rodriguez; Rodriguez emphasizes how the two countries
agree on rejecting US imperialism.
October 29 The Cuban Government demands "the rapid return" of Cuban prisoners,
dead, and wounded from Grenada and accuses the US of using blackmail
in repatriation efforts.
Guyana's Minister of Health Richard Van WestCharles arrives in Havana;
in a TV statement he condemns the US invasion of Grenada.
October 30 In transit in Madrid, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez is interviewed by El Pais; he
stresses that the total number of Cubans on Grenada when the US invasion
took place never reached the amount of 800.
November 1 Ricardo Alarcon denies accusations by the US that Cuba is behind threats
and terrorist acts against diplomatic personnel in Latin America.
The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union delegation visiting Cuba and
Cuba release a communique condemning the Reagan administration's
invasion of Grenada. The delegation departs for Nicaragua.
Deputy Foreign Minister Alarcon announces that US troops had surround-
ed the Cuban embassy in Grenada and that Cuba will make the US
responsible for the safety of the diplomats and embassy.
November 2 Fidel Castro tells Colombian President Betancur that the US has virtually
turned the Cuban diplomats in Grenada into hostages by refusing them
permission to leave the country.
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Pedro Nunez Mosquera, Cuban delegate at the UN Disarmament Com-
mittee meeting denounces the US for invading Grenada.
Attending the International Conference of Education Ministers, Politburo
alternate member Perez Herrero says that Cuba is ready to drive back any
aggression if the US dares such an action.
GDR Minister of Public Education Margot Honecker addresses the fifth
conference of public education ministers in Havana and condemns US
aggression against Grenada.
November 3 Sanchez Parodi, Chief of the Cuban Interests Section in Washington,
rejects US charges that Cuba is preparing terrorist attacks against US
diplomats in reprisal for US intervention in Grenada.
November 4 Central Committee member Garcia Frias condemns US aggression in
Grenada in his speech at the main national event commemorating the 66th
anniversary of the October Revolution in Havana.
November 5 Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Pelegrin Torras arrives in Phnom Penh;
he meets with Foreign Ministry official Hun Sen to discuss Central
America and the Caribbean and US aggression in Grenada.
November 8 The last Cuban prisoners under the control of US forces in Grenada-12
men and 9 women (including 1 Grenadian), and 3 children arrive in
Havana, raising the number of repatriates to 730.
November 9 A US Drug Enforcement Administration official says that Fidel Castro
and other officials of the Cuban Government were involved in distributing
narcotics to the US.
Angel Pino, a press officer for the Cuban Interests Section in Washington,
labels the charges by the US Drug Enforcement Administration as
"propaganda against the Cubans."
UN representative Raul Roa Kouri tells the General Assembly that Cuba
has warned US leaders, "drunk as a result of their victory" in Grenada,
against any pre-election move in Central America.
November 11 Madrid press reports on an interview by Carlos Rafael Rodriguez where he
denounces US foreign policy regarding nuclear deployment and comments
on the Contadora process.
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December 9
Fidel Castro condemns the US in a speech during the national mourning
service for Cubans who died in Grenada at the Jose Marti Monument at
Havana's Plaza de la Revolucion.
Raul Castro says that Cuba must build more bomb shelters and fortifica-
tions in case of an attack by the US.
According to a US federal prosecutor, Robert Vesco is living in Cuba and
was the instigator of a plot to bring embargoed US goods into Cuba.
Ernesto Melandez, Acting Minister of the State Committee for Economic
Cooperation criticizes US pressure on. Latin: America during his speech at
the Economic Commission for Latin America meeting.
The Reagan Administration announces the halt of imports of nickel
products from the Soviet Union unless Moscow can guarantee they do not
contain Cuban ore.
Havana press reports that Cuban officials and foreign diplomats "scoff" at
press reports that Fidel Castro is showing signs of being seriously ill as pub-
lished by the US magazine Newsweek.
An NSC Staff official calls for efforts to deepen Cuba's economic and
political isolation as part of a plan aimed at inducing Cuba to moderate its
foreign policy.
Speaking at the UN Special Political Committee, Cuban delegate Eumelio
Caballero condemns the economic, political, diplomatic, and military
support that the US is giving Israel.
In a speech before the UN, Nester Garcia Iturbe, warns of the worsening
world situation and accuses the US of threatening mankind.
In an interview in Havana, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez says there is virtually
no possibility of a dialogue with the US during the initial term of the
Reagan administration.
Cuban representative to the UN Raul Roa Kouri speaks before the third
commission on human rights on US and Latin American "tyrannies," and
accuses the US of violating international law.
Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs says the Ameri-
can-led invasion of Grenada was "to a certain degree a humiliation" for
Cuba.
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December 23 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Isidoro Malmierca receive the credentials of
Mohamad Abdul Aziz Salam, Arab Republic of Yemen, who will be a
nonresident ambassador, based in New York.
December 29 Politburo candidate member Antonio Perez Herrero addresses the Portu-
guese Communist Party Congress in Oporto condemning the aggressive
and overbearing policy of the US Administration.
December 30 The alleged leader of the Omega 7 anti-Castro terrorist group is indicted in
New York on charges involving 14 bombings and a failed plot to kill
Cuba's UN Ambassador Raul Roa.
Harare Domestic Service reports that Cuban Charge d'Affairs to Zimba-
bwe Ramon Alonso says his country is prepared to fight any forms of
aggression and imperialism from the US.
December 31 In an interview with Newsweek, Fidel Castro brands President Reagan a
"total liar," and says reconciliation between the US and Cuba is "out of
the question."
Jesus Montane is interviewed by the Polish press saying that the current
policy of US imperialism is not only a danger to world peace but is also
aimed at eliminating socialism in Cuba.
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March 11 Foreign Minister Malmierca and Vanuatu's Deputy Prime Minister Sethy
Regenvanu sign documents in New Delhi to establish diplomatic relations.
October .31 Melbourne overseas service reports that about 1,500 supporters of the
opposition coalition in Vanuatu have marched through the main street in
Port Vila announcing Vanuatu's links with Cuba.
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July 1 According to the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, Pope John
Paul II, in a meeting with seven visiting Cuban bishops, says the Catholic
Church is open to dialogue with Cuba.
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January 12-15 Education Minister. Jose Ramon, Fernandez, visiting Venezuela to review r
its programs for education, meets with; President Luis Herrera Campins
before going on to Guyana.
January 15 Education Minister Jose Ramon Fernandez delivers a message from Fidel
Castro to former Venezuelan President Rafael Caldera.
According to the Nonaligned Movement's headquarters in the UN,
Colombia, Bahamas, and Barbados will join the Nonaligned. Honduras
will not be admitted and Venezuela withdraws its application.
Havana notes that Venezuela's Supreme Court has ruled that the four
terrorists involved in the bombing of a Cuban commercial aircraft in 1976
will be tried by a civilian court.
President of the National Assembly Flavio Bravo heads a delegation to the
World Congress on Latin American Political Thought, "Alternativa" in
Caracas.
Flavio Bravo meets in Caracas with former Peruvian Foreign Minister
Edgardo Mercado Jarrin.
Flavio Bravo meets in Caracas with former Venezuelan President Carlos
Andres Perez, both agree that a solution to the current situation in El
Salvador must be the result of negotiations.
Flavio Bravo and Carlos Andres Perez also discuss President Reagan's and
Senator Goldwater's threats against Cuba and express concern over the
US-supported escalation of aggression against Nicaragua.
August 3 Fidel Castro presents the Cuban flag to the sports delegation that will
participate in the ninth Pan American Games in Venezuela.
August 13 Minister of Education Jose Ramon Fernandez arrives in Venezuela to
attend the Ninth Pan-American Games that will open on 14 August, where
a large group of Cuban athletes will participate.
September 10 The Cuban Olympic Committee announces that Coach Manuel Guizin
accepts full responsibility for the use of drugs by athletes Daniel Nunez
and Alberto Blanco during the Pan American Games in Caracas.
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February 10 Fidel Castro sends greetings to his Vietnamese colleague Le Duan on the
occasion of the 53rd anniversary of the Vietnamese Communist Party.
February 24- AALAPSO Secretary General Melba Hernandez visits Vietnam and is
March 10 greeted by Pham Van Dong, Chairman of the Council of Ministers.
March 16 Vietnamese Agricultural Minister Nguyen Ngoc Triu visits the Nina
Bonita feed and fodder's main station in the Municipality of Bauta as a
guest of Agricultural Minister Arnaldo Milian.
March 25 Vietnamese Communist Party member Triu and his delegation visit the
offices of the National Association of Small Farmers to discuss the
progress achieved through socialist methods of production.
April 4 Vietnamese Foreign Minister Ho Tam sends a message of sympathy to
Isidoro Malmierca concerning the severe damage suffered by Havana and
other areas from heavy storms.
May 19 The Cuba-Vietnam 25-year friendship treaty becomes effective. Fidel
Castro and Vietnam's leader. Truong Chinh signed the treaty in Havana on
15 October 1982.
June 25-29 Chairman of the People's Committee of Vietnam Tran Vy visits Cuba.
Central Committee member Oscar Fernandez Mell presents him the key to
Havana City; Vy will visit historical and economic sites.
July 11 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives the credentials of Hoang Luong, new
Vietnamese Ambassador to Cuba.
July 22 Hoang Luong, Vietnamese Ambassador to Cuba, presents his credentials
to Carlos Rafael Rodriguez.
July 29 Minister of Transportation Guillermo Garcia Frias and his Vietnamese.
counterpart Dong Si Nguyen sign a transportation agreement establishing
a direct maritime line and cooperation and railroads.
August 17 Vietnam's Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach arrives in Havana.
August 18 Foreign Minister Malmierca and Nguyan Co Thach discuss the interna-
tional situation, bilateral relations, and the Nonaligned Movement.
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August 20
Vietnam's Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Co Thach arrives in
Santiago de Cuba to visit various historic sites in the city.
September 6
September 16
Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nhuyen Co Thach, while visiting Havana,
says that if the US intervenes in Central America it will suffer a defeat
several times'worse than it suffered in Vietnam;
Ramon Castro accompanies Vietnam's Foreign Minister Nguyen Co
Thach on his visit to the Valle de Picadura Genetic Plan.
Fidel Castro sends a message of greetings to Hanoi on the 38th anniversary
of Vietnam's independence.
Fidel Castro discusses the international situation and matters of mutual
interest for bilateral relations with Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen
Co Thach during a meeting in Havana.
The Central Committee of the Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Association
meets in Hanoi. Cuban charge d' affaires in Hanoi and other staff
members of the Cuban Embassy attend.
Lucia'Sardinas, department head of the Commission for Science, Culture,
and Education of the PCC has made a 12-day working visit to Vietnam;
she toured several economic and cultural establishments.
Lucia Sardinas met with Vietnam officials Ha Xuan Truong, alternate
member of the Central Committee and Tan Danh Tuyen, deputy head of
the International Department of the Central Committee.
October 18 President of the National Assembly Flavio Bravo arrives in Vietnam and
meets with his counterpart Nguyen Huu Tho.
Flavio Bravo tells Nguyen Huu Tho-"The Cuban people fully support the
Vietnamese people and will always stand by their side in the struggle
against the common enemies."
October 20 Flavio Bravo discusses the international situation with Le Duan, maximum
leader of Vietnam.
November 1 Mao, visits Cuba; they tour economic establishments and historical sites.
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The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union delegation visiting Cuba and
Cuba release a communique condemning the Reagan administration's
invasion of Grenada. The delegation departs for. Nicaragua.
Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach of Vietnam receives Vice Minister of
Foreign Relations Pelegrin Torras to discuss the international situation,
especially Central America and the Caribbean.
Vietnam's Ambassador to Cuba Hoang Luong presents Politburo alternate
member Jesus Montane with the Order of Friendship conferred by the
Council of State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
Tran Ohynh, Vice Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Socialist
Republic of Vietnam arrives in Havana to participate in the Seventh Cuba-
Vietnam Intergovernmental Meeting.
The 7th session of the Vietnam-Cuba Intergovernmental Commission for
Economic, Scientific, and Technological Cooperation opens in Havana.
Central Committee member Joel Domenech presides.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with Tran Qhynh, Vice Chairman of the
Vietnam Council of Ministers to discuss the performance of the Cuban
economy, despite the international situation.
Vice President of the Council of Ministers Joel Domenech and his
Vietnamese counterpart Tran Quynh sign a cooperation protocol in
Havana.
Raul Castro sends a message to his Vietnamese counterpart Van Tien
Dung on the 39th anniversary of the Vietnamese People's Army expressing
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March 28 Western Sahara's President Mohammed Abdelaziz and Cuba's Ambassa-
dor Raul Barzaga discuss matters of mutual interest, Sahara's independ-
ence, and international problems.
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November 28 Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in San'a. He discusses bilateral Y r.
relations, international developments, and issues of common interest with
Dr. Ahmad al-Asbahi, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
November 29 Isidoro Malmierca delivers a message from Fidel Castro to Colonel Ali
Abdallah Salih, President of the Yemen Arab Republic, dealing with
bilateral relations and ways to develop them.
November 30 In a news statement before departing San'a, Malmierca appraises the
leaders on current issues dealing with peace and solidarity, and the
situations in Central America and the Caribbean.
December 23 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Isidoro Malmierca_ receive the credentials of
Mohamad Abdul Aziz Salam, Arab Republic of Yemen, who will be a
nonresident ambassador, based in New York.
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January 16 South Yemen's Foreign Minister `Abd al-'Aziz adDali arrives in Havana.
He meets with Isidoro Malmierca.
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February 8
Fidel Castro discusses bilateral relations, the situation in the Middle East,
and the recent Nonaligned meeting in Nicaragua with Yemen's Foreign
Minister `Abd al-'Aziz al-Dali.
Politburo alternate member Montane arrives in Yemen. He discusses
international problems and matters of mutual interest with members of the
Yemen Socialist Party Politburo and Secretariat.
Jesus Montane meets with Yemen's Prime Minister Ali Nasir Muhammad
al-Hasani in Aden to discuss international problems and the Nonaligned
Movement meeting in New Delhi.
Jesus Montane delivers a message from Fidel Castro to Yemen's Chairman
of the Council of Ministers Ali Nasir Muhammad al-Hasani.
February 9 Jesus Montane ends his visit to Yemen.
March 20 Defense Minister of the People's Democratic Republic of South Yemen
Brigadier Salih Muslih Qasim arrives in Havana and tours places of
historic and economic interest.
April 1
Raul Castro and South Yemen's Defense Minister, Brig. Salih Muslih
Qasim, discuss bilateral relations, after which Div. Gen. Casas accompa-
nies the delegation to Cuba's military academy.
Fidel Castro and Division General Senen Casas receive PDRY Defense
Minister Qasim before Raul Castro bids him farewell at Jose Marti
International Airport.
A Cuban delegation of the State Committee for Economic Cooperation,
headed by Ramon Castro, is visiting Yemen, touring various livestock-
agricultural development projects.
Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Oscar Oramas welcomes an Arab
League delegation, Isam an-Na'ib from Syria, Salah al-abhou from
Yemeni and Ali al-Ista of the Arab League in Madrid, Spain.
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December 7
December 13
Orestes Jimenez Gispert, Vice President of the Cuban Institute of Radio
and Television meets in Aden with Awad al-Hamzah, Deputy Chairman of
South Yemen's State Committee for Information.
The Yemen news agency ANA announces that Cuba and the People's
Democratic Republic of Yemen sign, in Aden, an agreement on the
development of cooperation in radio and television.
Sixto Batista delivers a message from Fidel Castro to Ali Nasir Muham-
mad, Secretary General of the Central Committee of South Yemen,
marking the 20th anniversary of the Yemeni revolution.
Jose Ramon Machado Ventura and Osmani Cienfuegos preside over
ceremonies in Havana commemorating the 20th anniversary of South
Yemen's revolution.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Yemen Abd al-Aziz ad-Dali receives
Levi Farah; they discuss solidarity between both organizations and exam-
-ine"the international situation.
Ali Nasir Muhammad al-Hasani, Secretary General of the Yemen Social-
ist Party receives Levi Farah. al-Hasani praises Cuba's principled interna-
tional position' and its support of the Arab movement.
Fidel Castro sends a message to Ali Nasir Muhammad, Secretary General
of the Yemen Socialist Party on the 16th anniversary of Yemen's
.independence.
PDRY party secretary Abd al-Ghani `Abd al-Qadir arrives in Havana at
the invitation of the Cuban Communist Party; he delivers a message from
Secretary General Ali Nasir Muhammad to Fidel Castro.
Antonio Perez Herrero meets with Adb al-Ghani Abd al-Qadir, member of
the Yemen Socialist Party to discuss the Cuban economy and the
education of Yemeni students in Cuba.
Jesus Montane Oropesa and Abd al-Ghani Abd alQadir, member of the
Political Bureau of Yemen sign a cooperation protocol, in Havana, between
the two ruling parties.
Fidel Castro holds friendly and fraternal talks with Abd al-Ghani Abd ad-
Qadir, member of the Political Bureau and secretary for foreign relations
of the Yemen Socialist Party.
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February 8 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez arrives in Belgrade and discusses bilateral
relations and the international situation with Zvone Dragan, Vice Presi-
dent of the Federal Executive Council.
February 9 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez discusses the international situation and the 7th
Nonaligned Movement meeting with Yugoslavia's leaders Mitja Ribicic
and Petar Stambolic.
March `18
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez conveys greetings from Fidel Castro to Yugosla-
via's President Petar Stambolic; Rodriguez departs Yugoslavia on 10
February.
Minister of Culture Armando Hart arrives in Yugoslavia and signs an
educational-cultural and scientific-technical cooperation agreement for
1983-85.
May 31 Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, Juan Almeida, and Carlos Rafael Rodriguez
greet Mitja Ribicic, President of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia,
at Jose Marti Airport.
Fidel Castro and Yugoslavia's President of the League of Communists
Mitja Ribicic discuss the international situation, building socialism, and
bilateral relations during a meeting in Havana.
June 2 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez speaks at an awards ceremony for Mitja Ribicic.
Fidel Castro presents the Order of Jose Marti to Ribicic.
June 3 Mitja Ribicic and his delegation visit Santiago de Cuba and- are greeted on
the Isle of Youth by Jesus Montane.
Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, Guillermo Garcia, Osvaldo Dorticos, Jesus
Montane, and Vilma Espin discuss bilateral cooperation and the interna-
tional situation with Mitja Ribicic.
Before a plenary session of the sixth UNCTAD Conference in Belgrade,
Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas demands an end to coercive
economic measures that are being applied by the. US..
Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas and his Yugoslav counterpart
Milenko Bojanic discuss trade and economic cooperation between the two
countries during meetings in Belgrade.
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Radivoje Brajovic, President of the Executive Council of Yugoslav Repub-
lic of Montenegro meets with Ricardo Cabrizas; during his visit to
Montenegro, Cabrizas'visits an aluminum plant.
Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas and the Governor of the National Bank
of Yugoslavia Rodokna Maki discuss financial relations and the current
crisis of the international economy in Belgrade.
First Secretary of the Union of Young Communists Carlos Lage and
Dragan Milic, President of the League of Socialist Youth of Yugoslavia,
begin talks in Belgrade.
Fidel Castro and Yugoslavia's Central Committee member Dusan Ckrebic
discuss party cooperation and international issues, particularly Central
America during a meeting in Havana.
September 30 Yugoslavia's President Mika Spiljak meets Foreign Minister Malmierca in
New York at the UN.
General Secretary of the Trade Unions Roberto Veiga discusses coopera-
tion in all spheres and the current international situation with Mitja
Ribicic, member of the LCY Central Committee.
Division General Sixto Batista Santana arrives in Belgrade and is greeted
by Colonel General Petar Gracanin, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of
the Yugoslav Army.
November 11 Sixto Batista discusses increasing cooperative relations between the armed
forces with Yugoslav leaders and meets with Petar Matic, President of the
League of Communists.
November 29 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez presides over a ceremony in Havana commemo-
rating the 40th anniversary of Yugoslavia's National Day.
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March 9 Cuba and Zambia open talks, in Zambia, to establish foundations for
scientific-technical cooperation in various areas.
December 30 Cuban Ambassador to Zambia Heriberto Feraudy reaffirms Havana's
support for liberation movements,in southern Africa and says it will keep
troops in Angola and Ethiopia as long as required.
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