Rome
 
November 15 •    Arrival at the ‘Leonardo Da Vinci” airport.
 
November 16
•    Speech delivered at the World Food Summit held at the FAO headquarters.
•    Conversation with Jacques Diouf, Director General of the FAO.
•    Conversation with Romano Prodi, Prime Minister of Italy, at the Ghigi Palace.
•    Conversation with Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, President of Italy, at the Quirinal Palace.
•    Fidel attended a reception hosted by the FAO at the Quirinal Palace.
 
November 17
•    Conversation with Katherine Bertini, director of the World Food Program (WFP).
•    Conversation with Rene Preval, President of Haiti, at the meeting hall of the Cuban Mission to the FAO.
•    Conversation with Deve Gowda, Prime Minister of India.
•    Conversation with Joao Bernardo Vieira, President of Guinea Bissau.
•    Press Conference at the plenary hall of the FAO.
•    Fidel attended a dinner hosted by Gianni Agnelli, director of the automobile company FIAT at his residence.
 
November 18
•    Conversation with Fausto Bertinotti, national secretary of the Communist Refoundation Party at the Holiday Inn Hotel.
•    Conversation with Massimo D’Alema, secretary general of the Left Wing Democratic Party at the Holiday Inn Hotel.
•    Conversation with Lamberto Dini, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Italy, at the Holiday Inn Hotel.
•    Speech delivered at the solidarity meeting with Cuba at the Holiday Inn Hotel.
•    Meeting with Italian entrepreneurs at the Holiday Inn Hotel.
 
Vatican
 
November 19
•    Conversation with Pope John Paul II at the Library of the Holy See.
•    Conversation with Cardinal Angelo Sodano.
•    Tour around the Saint Peter’s Basilica.
•    Words pronounced at the dinner offered to the cardinals in the Columbus Hotel of the Holy See.
•    Tour around Peter’s necropolis and the Popes tombs.
•    Visit to the Sistine Chapel.
•    Press Conference.
•    Interview granted to Jose Levi, CNN correspondent.
•    Meeting with the staff of the Cuban embassies to the government of Italy, the FAO and the Vatican.
 
Rome
 
November 20
•    Courtesy visit to the Mayor of Rome, Francesco Rutelli.
•    Visit to the restoration works of the ancient Capitol of Michelangelo.
•    Visit to the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius.
•    Visit to the Roman Forum archaeological site.