Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1982
Ireland
Shannon
November 14 • Interview offered to foreign journalists at Shannon’s airport.
Soviet Union
Moscow
• Arrival at Vnukovo airport.
• Fidel laid a wreath on Leonid Ilich Brezhnev’s coffin, at the Hall of Columns of the House of Trade Unions.
November 15
• Fidel took part in a meeting held by soviet leaders with the foreign delegations that attended the funeral of Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, at the Saint George’s Hall of the Kremlin’s Palace.
• Meeting with the heads of the delegations from Angola, Congo, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Nicaragua and Democratic Yemen.
• Bilateral talks held with Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece; Indira Gandhi, Primer Minister of India; Hafez el Assad, President of Syria; and Abdelsalam Jalloud, member of the Historic Command of the Libyan Revolution.
• Conversation held with Sam Nujoma, President of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO).
November 16
• Conversation held with Yuri Andropov, Secretary-General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, at the Kremlin’s Palace.
• Conversation held with Marshall Dimitri Ustinov, Minister of Defense of the USSR, at the protocol residence No.15.
• Conversation held with Mengistu Haile Mariam, President of the Military Provisional Administrative Council of Socialist Ethiopia.
• Conversation held with Yasser Arafat, President of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
Ireland
Shannon
November 17
• Conversation with Silvester Barret, Minister of State of Ireland, at Shannon airport.
• Conversation held with Jack Gore, journalist of ‘The Irish Times’, at Shannon airport.