Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and North Korea, 1986
Soviet Union
Moscow
February 24 • Arrival at Vnukovo 2 airport.
• Fidel laid a wreath at Lenin’s Mausoleum, in the Red Square.
February 25
• Fidel attended the opening ceremony of the Twenty Seventh Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, at Kremlin’s Congress Palace.
February 26
• Fidel attended the sessions of the Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union at Kremlin’s Congress Palace.
• Speech delivered at the Twenty Seventh Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union at the Plenary Hall of Kremlin’s Congress Palace.
• Conversation held with Abdel Salam Jalloud, member of the Revolutionary Command of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.
February 27
• Fidel attended the sessions of the Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, at Kremlin’s Congress Palace.
• Conversation held with Eduardo Dos Santos, President of the People’s Republic of Angola.
• Conversation held with Mengistu Haile Mariam, President of the Military Provisional Administrative Council of Socialist Ethiopia.
• Conversation held with Mohamed Cherif Messadia, member of the Political Bureau of the Algerian National Liberation Front Party.
• Exchange held with delegates and a journalist from the Soviet television during the session’s recess, at Kremlin’s Congress Palace.
February 28
• Fidel attended the sessions of the Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, at Kremlin’s Congress Palace.
March 1st
• Fidel attended the sessions of the Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, at Kremlin’s Congress Palace.
• Visit to the Institute for Eye Micro-Surgery and conversation held with its director, Sviatoslav Fiodorov.
• Message of condolences sent to the Swedish people over the assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme.
March 2
• Official talks held with Mikhail Gorbachev, Secretary-General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, at Kremlin’s Palace.
• Visit to the new monument to Lenin at the October Square.
• Conversation held with Shaffik Handal, Ferman Cienfuegos and other members of the delegations of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front and of the Revolutionary Democratic Front of El Salvador, at the Oktiabrskaia Hotel.
• Exchange with diplomats, party representatives and Latin American and African personalities who came to greet him at the Oktiabrskaia Hotel.
• Conversation held with Volodia Teitelboim, Secretary-General of the Communist Party of Chile.
• Meeting with Dimche Belovski, Secretary of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia and other members of his delegation at the Cuban residence.
• Conversation held with Mengistu Haile Mariam, President of the Military Provisional Administrative Council of Ethiopia at the Ethiopian residence.
March 3
• Fidel attended the sessions of the Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, at Kremlin’s Congress Palace.
• Words pronounced during the visit to the Institute of Bio-Organic Chemistry ‘Shemyakin’ of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
• Statements made to ‘Novosti’ press agency.
• Conversation held with Erich Honecker, President of the German Democratic Republic.
March 4
• Fidel attended the sessions of the Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union at Kremlin’s Congress Palace.
• Meeting with Kang Sung Sang, Prime Minister of the Administrative Council of the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea and other members of the Korean delegation at the residence of the Cuban delegation.
• Signing of an economic, scientific and technical cooperation program between Cuba and Bulgaria, at the venue of the Bulgarian embassy in Moscow.
• Conversation with Todor Yivkov, President of the Council of State of Bulgaria, at the venue of the Bulgarian embassy in Moscow.
March 5
• Meeting with Torsten Orl, Swedish ambassador to Moscow, at the Swedish embassy.
• Signing of the book of condolences which was opened at the Swedish embassy on the passing away of Prime Minister Olof Palme.
• Statements to the Swedish television.
March 6
• Fidel attended the closing session of the Twenty-Seventh Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, at Kremlin’s Congress Palace.
• Conversation held with Abdullah al Ahmar, Under Secretary-General of the Syrian Arab Socialist Renaissance Party.
• Conversation held with Egor Ligachov and Nikolai Rizhkov, members of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
March 7
• Tour around some important avenues of Moscow. Exchange with women workers at an optician’s shop.
• Dialogue with the artist and sculptor Lev Kerbel during a visit to the Lenin’s Monument in the October Square.
North Korea
Pyongyang
March 8
• Arrival at Pyongyang airport.
• Conversation held with Kim Il Sung, President of the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea, at the Presidential Palace.
• Fidel is awarded de Order of Hero of the People’s Republic of Korea at the Presidential Palace.
• Speech delivered at the reception hosted in honor of the Cuban delegation at the Presidential Palace.
March 9
• Official talks held with Kim Il Sung, President of the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea.
• Visit to the exhibition of the achievements attained in the construction of Socialism in Korea.
• Visit to the Ryong-Song canned meat products factory.
• Fidel attended a cultural and artistic show staged in his honor at the Grand Theater of the House of Culture ‘Eighth of February’.
March 10
• Official talks held with Kim Il Sung, President of the People’s Republic of Korea.
• Visit to the ‘People’s Study Palace’.
• Visit to the ‘Palace of Infants and Schoolchildren’.
March 11
• Signing of the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation between Cuba and Democratic Korea, at the Presidential Palace.
• Speech delivered at the ‘Sports Palace’.
• Message sent from the plane to Kim Il Sung, President of the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea.
Soviet Union
Moscow
March 12
• Arrival at Vnukovo 2 airport in Moscow.
• Conversation with Mikhail Gorbachev during lunch at the Protocol Compound in Moscow.