Algeria
Algiers
 
March 1st •    Arrival at Dar El Beida’s airport
•    Talks held with Houari Boumediene, President of Algeria, at the People’s Palace.
•    Meeting with the foreign press, at the Lounge of Honor of Dar El Beida’s airport.
 
Libya
Tripoli
 
•    Arrival at the military airport of Tripoli
•    Meeting with foreign journalists, at the visitor’s hall of the Libyan Air Base.
•    Conversation with Abdel Salam Jalloud, Prime Minister of Libya, at the Guests Palace.
 
March 2
•    Fidel laid a wreath at the monument to the Unknown Soldier.
•    Visit to the oil refinery of Zawia.
 
Sebha
•    Arrival at the Sebha airport.
•    Speech delivered at the special session of the General Congress of the Libyan People, Supreme Organ of the Libyan Socialist People’s Arab State of the Masses.
 
March 3
•    Official talks held with Muammar Al-Gadhafi, at the People’s Hall.
•    Tour around the dessert region of Wac Morzoe.
•    Visit to the farm ‘Godwa’.
 
March 4  
•    Visit to the agricultural development project in the ‘El Kufra’ oasis
 
Benghazi
 
•    Arrival at Bengazhi’s airport
 
March 5
•    Fidel laid a wreath on the tomb of Omar el  Mukhtar, Libya’s national hero.
•    Visit to the metal pipes factory. Dialogue with Spanish engineers.
•    Visit to the cement factory.
•    Visit to the electric wires factory.
•    Visit to the prefabricated components factory.
•    Visit to the neighborhoods built in the outskirts of Benghazi.
•    Visit to the power generation and sea water desalination plant.
•    Visit to the agricultural development project of Wadi Gattara.
 
Sirte
 
March 7
•    Visit to the city of Sirte.
•    A horse-ride tour accompanied by Muammar Al-Gadhafi, President of Libya, around the village of Wati Jalesf.
•    Official talks with Muammar Al-Gadhafi, President of Libya, at Wati Jalsef.
 
Tripoli
 
March 8
•    Arrival at Tripoli
 
March 9
•    Conversation with Muammar Al-Gadhafi, President of Libya.
•    Signing of an agreement between Cuba and Libya.
•    Visit to a textile factory.
•    Visit to the dairy factory of Aljansa.
•    Speech delivered at a Libya-Cuba friendship gathering,  at the People’s Congress Theatre.
 
March 10
•    Fidel was awarded the Medal of Courage at the Guests Palace.
•    Visit to a typical Arab restaurant.
•    Visit to the wheat fields growing in the desert.
 
Yemen
Aden
 
March 10
•    Arrival at Aden’s international airport.
 
March 11
•    Speech delivered at Joseen, Yemen.
 
March 12
•    Visit to the villages of Al-Goel and Al-Majasan.
•    Visit to the School of Medicine.
•    Visit paid to the Cuban doctors working in the Democratic Republic of Yemen.
•    Visit to the military school ‘The Red March’.
 
Somalia
Mogadiscio
 
March 12
•    Arrival at Mogadiscio’s international airport.
 
March 13
•    Visits to the Schools of Agriculture and Pedagogy of the National University of Afgoi.
•    Visit to the industrial and social centers of the city of Afgoi.
•    Official talks held with Mohamed Siad Barre, President of Somalia, at the People’s Palace.
•    Speech delivered at the stadium of Bernadir
 
Mach 14
•    Fidel is awarded The Star of Somalia in the First Degree, at the teachers’ training school.
•    Speech delivered at the teachers’ training school.
•    Conversation with a nun during the tour around Somalia
 
Ethiopia
Addis Ababa
 
March 14
•    Arrival at Addis Ababa’s airport.
•    Words pronounced at the former Imperial Palace
•    Meeting held with Mengistu Haile Mariam, President of Ethiopia, and with Atnafu Abate, Vice-president.
•    Fidel attended the screening of a documentary film on the Ethiopian Revolution.
 
March 15
•    Official talks held with Mengistu Haile Marian, President of Ethiopia.
 
Tanzania
Dar es Salaam
 
March 17
•    Arrival at the airport of Dar es Salaam.
•    Welcome ceremony held at the Government Palace Gardens.
 
Zanzibar
 
March 18
•    Arrival at Zanzibar’s airport.
•    Visit to the headquarters of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (Party of the Revolution).
 
Kilimanjaro
 
•    Arrival at the airport of Kilimanjaro.  
•    Tour around the agricultural region.
•    Visit to the Cuban medical brigade.
•    Visit to the region of Arusha.
•    Visit to Lake Manyara National Park.
 
Ngorongoro
 
March 19
•    Visit to the Ngorongoro crater, to the North of Tanzania.
 
Dar es Salaam
 
•    Fidel attended a reception hosted in his honor, at the State House.
 
Makanya
 
March 20
•    Speech delivered at a Basic Secondary School in the Countryside in Ruvu.
 
Dar es Salaam
 
March 21
•    Press conference, at the House of Government.
 
Mozambique
 
Beira
 
•    Arrival at Beira’s airport.
•    Talks held with Samora Machel, President of Mozambique.
•    Speech delivered by Fidel during a reception hosted in his honor.
 
March 22     
•    Speech delivered at the main ceremony celebrating Cuba-Mozambique friendship.
 
Mafambisse
 
•    Tour around the sugar agro-industrial complex.
•    Speech delivered at the central esplanade of a sugar mill.
 
Beira
 
•    Tour around the fishing port on board of a vessel. During the trip he talked with some government leaders and crew members.
•    Private conversations held with Samora Machel, President of Mozambique.
•    Farewell words addressed to the Mozambican people.
 
Angola
Luanda
 
March 23
•    Arrival at the airport of Belas.
•    Speech delivered upon his arrival in Angola, from the Government Palace Balcony.
•    Tour around the city of Huambo.
•    Official talks held with Agostinho Neto, President of Angola.
•    Fidel attended a welcome reception, at the Government Palace Gardens.
 
March 24
•    Visit to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
•    Fidel laid wreaths in honor of the fallen Angolan heroes and on the tomb of Raul Diaz Argüelles, a Cuban internationalist combatant, at the cemetery.
•    Speech delivered at the ‘museque’ (a poor neigborhood) in Golf.
 
Quifangondo
 
•    Meeting with Angolan pioneer children who fought in the battle of Quifangondo, at the Quifangondo lighthouse.
 
Caxito
 
•    Speech delivered at a rally in Caxito.
 
Mossamedes
 
March 25
•    Visit to the port and cold storage facilities of the fishing terminal.
•    Speech delivered at the Mossamedes central square.
•    Visit to the La Leva Hill, in Huila.
 
Lubango
 
•    Speech delivered at the Republic’s Square.
•    Speech addressed to the Cuban internationalist combatants.
•    Speech addressed to the Cuban troops detached in the South Regiment.
 
Benguela
 
March 26
•    Speech delivered at the Umbaca airport.
•    Tour on board of a ferrocement fishing boat donated by Cuba, at Lobito harbor.  
 
Luanda
 
March 27
•    Speech delivered in a rally at the ‘First of May’ Square in Luanda.
 
March 29
•    Talks held with Oliver Tambo, president of the South African National Congress (ANC).
•    Talks held with Joshua Nkomo, leader of the Patriotic Front of Zimbabwe.
 
March 30
•    Speech addressed to the Cuban civilian and military staff at the headquarters of the Cuban military mission.
•    Meeting with top officials and chiefs of the Revolutionary Armed Forces in charge of the military cooperation between Cuba and the People’s Republic of Angola.
•    Meeting with leaders of the members of the Cuban civilian cooperation groups in Angola.
 
March 31
•    Press conference with Angolan journalists
 
Algeria
Algiers
 
•    Arrival at the Dar el Beida airport.
•    Fidel attended the solemn session of the People’s National Assembly, Palace of Nations.
 
April 1st
•    Visit to the Higher Maritime Institute of Bou Ismail.
•    Official talks held with Houari Boumediene, president of Algeria.
•    Talks held with Houari Boumediene, president of Algeria, at Dar el Beida airport.
 
German Democratic Republic (GDR)
Berlin
 
April 2
•    Arrival at Shoenefeld airport.
•    Official talks held with Erich Honecker, president of the Council of State of the GDR, at the headquarters of the Central Committee of the German Socialist Unified Party.
•    Speech delivered at the Council of State headquarters.
•    Words pronounced during the dinner hosted in his honor at the Council of State’s headquarters.
 
April 3
 
•    Fidel laid a wreath at the monuments in honor of the victims of fascism and militarism, ‘Unter den Linden’ Avenue.
 
Soviet Union
Moscow
 
April 4
•    Arrival at the airport of Vnukovo.
 
April 5
•    Speech delivered at a dinner hosted in his honor, at the Faceted Chamber of the Grand Kremlin Palace.
•    Official talks held with Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, president of the USSR.
 
April 6
•    Continuation of the official talks.
•    Meeting with Yasser Arafat, president of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).
 
April 7
•    Visit to the Central Museum of the Soviet Army.
•    Speech delivered at the University of Lomonosov.
•    Meeting with Luis Corvalan, secretary-general of the Communist Party of Chile.