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India, 1983

March 5, 1983

•    Conversation held with Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada; with Lieutenant Colonel Dersi Buterse, Chief of the Revolutionary Command of Suriname; and with Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, during the journey.
 
Uzbekistan
Tashkent

 
•    Arrival at Tashkent airport.
 
March 6
•    Visit to the Palace of Friendship with the Peoples.
•    Fidel laid a wreath at the statue of Lenin, at Lenin’s Square.
•    Visit to the subway station at Lenin’s Square.
•    Visit to the subway station ‘October Revolution’.
•    Visit to the citrus cooperative ‘Vladimir I. Lenin’.
•    Tour around Tashkent main avenues.
 
India
New Delhi

 
•    Arrival at Palam’s international airport.
•    Meeting with Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India.
•    Opening ceremony of the Seventh Summit Conference of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, at the Palace of Culture (Vigyan Bhavan)
•    Fidel attended the meeting of heads of delegations at the Conference Center of the palace of Culture (Vigyan Bhavan).
•    Speech delivered at the opening ceremony of the Seventh Summit of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, at the Palace of Culture (Vigyan Bhavan).
 
March 7
•    Fidel attended the sessions of the Conference of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries at the Palace of Culture (Vigyan Bhavan).
•    Speech delivered at the Seventh Conference of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, at the Palace of Culture (Vigyan Bhavan).
 
March 11
•    Conversation held with Pham Van Dong, President of the Council of Ministers of Vietnam.
•    Words of gratitude addressed to the government and the people of India.
 
March 12
•    Closing ceremony of the Seventh Conference of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries.
•    Speech delivered at the closing ceremony of the Conference of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries.
 
German Democratic Republic
Berlin

 
•    Arrival at the Shoenefeld airport.
•    Arrival at the guests’ residence, in the district of Pankow.
•    Conversation held with Erich Honecker, President of the Council of State of the GDR.