Africa, 1986
September 1, 1986
Zimbabwe
Harare
August 31
• Arrival at Harare’s international airport.
September 1st
• Opening ceremony of the Eighth Summit Conference of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, at the International Conference Center.
• Interview granted to foreign TV networks.
• Conversation held with Alan Garcia, President of Peru.
• Speech delivered at the Solemn Session of the Eighth Summit of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, at the International Conference Center.
• Fidel attended a reception hosted in honor of the heads of State or Government attending the Summit, at the Monomatapa Hotel.
September 2
• Speech delivered at the Eighth Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, at the International Conference Center.
• Conversation with Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, at the residence of the Indian delegation.
• Conversation with Raul Alfonsin, President of Argentina.
• Conversation with Chadli Bendjedid, President of Algeria.
September 3
• Fidel attended the sessions of the Summit Conference of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, at the International Conference Center.
• Conversation held with Yoweri Museveni, President of Uganda, at the Presidential Hall of the International Conference Center.
• Conversation with Thomas Sankara, President of Burkina Faso, at the Presidential Hall of the International Conference Center.
• Conversation with Ali Khamenei, President of Iran, at the Presidential Hall of the International Conference Center.
• Conversation with Manuel Pinto Da Costa, President of Sao Tome and Prince, at the Presidential Hall of the International Conference Center.
• Conversation with Alan Garcia, President of Peru.
• Conversation with Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua.
• Conversation with Samora Machel, President of Mozambique.
• Conversation with Desmond Hoyte, President of Guyana.
• Conversation with Mengistu Haile Mariam, President of Ethiopia, at the Presidential Hall of the International Conference Center.
September 4
• Fidel attended the sessions of the Summit Conference of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, at the International Conference Center.
• Meeting with Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua, and Muammar el Gadhafi, President of Libya.
• Conversation with Sinan Hassani, President of Yugoslavia.
• Conversation with Moshoeshoe II, King of Lesotho.
• Conversation with Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, President of Angola.
• Conversation with Haidar Abubaker Al Attas, President of Democratic Yemen.
• Conversation Pak Sun Chol, Vice-president of Democratic Korea.
September 5
• Fidel attended the sessions of the Summit of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, at the International Conference Center.
• Conversation with Dennis Sessou Nguesso, President of Congo.
• Conversation with Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, President of Angola.
• Conversation with Moussa Traore, President of Mali.
• Conversation with Kenneth Kaunda, President of Zambia.
• Conversation with Samora Machel, President of Mozambique.
• Conversation with Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua.
• Conversation with Bernardo Vieira, President of Guinea Bissau.
• Conversation with Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India.
• Interview granted to the Congolese television.
• Conversation with Walter Hayde Lint, head of the delegation of Vanuatu.
• Conversation with Ali Kashtmand, President of the Council of Ministers of Afghanistan, at the Conference Center.
• Conversation with Alan Garcia, President of Peru.
September 6
• Closing of the Eighth Summit Conference of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, at the International Conference Center.
• Conversation with Sally Mugabe, wife of Robert Mugabe, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.
• Conversation with Aristide Pereira, President of Cape Verde.
• Conversation with Halim Kaddam, Vice-president of Syria.
Angola
Luanda
September 7
• Arrival at the ‘Fourth of February’ international airport.
September 8
• Speech delivered at a ceremony to celebrate the friendship between Cuba and Angola, at the “Raul Diaz Argüelles” Military School and Unit of the Cuban Internationalist Troops in Angola.
• Fidel laid a wreath in honor of the Cuban soldiers who died in Angola, at the Cuban Cemetery in Luanda.
September 9
• Fidel laid a wreath at the mausoleum in honor of Agostinho Neto, the first President of Angola after independence, at the ‘People’s Palace’.
• Official talks held with Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, President of Angola.
• Meeting with the chiefs of the Cuban troops in Angola.
• Words pronounced during a meeting with Cuban cooperation workers.
Algeria
Algiers
September 10
• Arrival at ‘Houari Boumediene’ airport.
• Words pronounced upon receiving the ‘Athir’ Medal of the National Merit Order, at Djenane El Mithag Villa.
• Conversation with Chadli Bendjedid, President of Algeria.
September 11
• Fidel laid a wreath at Magam Echadie Memorial, which honors the martyrs of the Algerian Revolution.
• Official conversation with Chadli Bendjedid, President of Algeria.
• Visit to the Museum of the History of the Djihad Resistance.
• Conversation with Mohamed Abdelaziz, President of the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic.
Yugoslavia
Belgrade
September 12
• Arrival at Surcin airport.
• Words pronounced at the dinner hosted n his honor.
• Official talks held with Sinan Hassani, President of Yugoslavia, at the Federation Palace.
September 13
• Fidel laid a wreath on the tomb of the Yugoslavian leader Josip Broz Tito.
• Conversation held with Milenko Renovika, President of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, at the headquarters of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia.
• Words pronounced at a luncheon hosted in his honor.
• Official talks held with Sinan Hassani, President of Yugoslavia, at the White Palace.
September 14
• Words pronounced upon receiving the Golden Plaque of the City of Belgrade.
• Words pronounced upon receiving the Order of the Grand Star of Yugoslavia.
• Meeting with Yugoslavian military doctors, at the Academy of Medicine of the Yugoslavian Army.
• Words pronounced upon receiving the Plaque of Honor of the Academy of Military Medicine of Yugoslavia.
• Fidel plants an oak tree as a symbol of the friendship between Cuba and Yugoslavia, at the Peace Park.
• Interview granted to the Yugoslavian television.