Viaje al Exterior

Asia, France and Canada, 2003

Vietnam
Hanoi
 
February 21

•    Arrival at Noi Bai international airport.
 
February 22

•    Official welcome ceremony offered by the main three leaders Of Vietnam: Nong Duc Manh, Secretary-General of the Communist Party; Tran Duc Luang, President of the Republic, and Pham Van Khai, Prime Minister, at the esplanade of the Presidential Palace.
•    Words pronounced at the official welcome ceremony in the Presidential Palace’s Grand Ceremony Hall.
•    Private conversation with Nong Duc Manh, Secretary-General of the Communist Party; Tran Duc Luang, President of the Republic, and Pham Van Khai, Prime Minister, at the Presidential Palace.
•    Official conversation with Nong Duc Manh, Secretary-General of the Communist Party; Tran Duc Luang, President of the Republic, and Pham Van Khai, Prime Minister, at the Presidential Palace.
•    Conversation with Do Muoi and with Le Kha Phieu, former secretary-generals of the Communist Party of Vietnam, at the headquarters of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
•    Conversation with Le Duc Anh, former president of the National Assembly, at the headquarters of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
•    Meeting with Vo Nguyen Giap, legendary Vietnamese combatant, and his relatives.
•    Conversation with Nguyen Van Anh, president of the National Assembly, at the headquarters of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
•    Fidel attended a gala hosted in his honor, at the Opera of Hanoi.
•    Meeting with executives of the Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Association.
 
February 23

•    Fidel laid a wreath at the Mausoleum of the Fallen.
•    Fidel laid a wreath at the mausoleum in honor of Ho Chi Minh.
•    Fidel laid a wreath at the statute of Jose Marti, Cuba’s national hero, at the Jose Marti Park.
•    Tour around the industrial zone Saidon-Hanel.
•    Words of gratitude for the donation of 500 computers during the visit to the Orion-Hanel factory, at the Saidon-Hanel industrial zone.
•    Speech delivered at the Polytechnic University of Hanoi.
•    Lunch hosted in his honor by Nong Duc Manh, Secretary-General of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
•    Farewell ceremony at the Presidential Palace.
 
Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur
 

•    Arrival at the international airport.
 
February 24

•    Opening of the Thirteenth Summit of the Non-Aligned Countries Movement, at Havana’s Conference Center.
•    Official dinner offered by Mahathir bin Mohamad, Prime Minister of Malaysia, at the Hotel Palace of the Golden Horses.
•    Conversation with Xanana Gusmao, President of East Timor.
•    Conversation with Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan, at the World Trade Center of Putra.
•    Conversation with Sheik Shaikh Caliph Bin Salman Al-Khalifa, Prime Minister of Bahrein.
•    Conversation with Taha Yassin Ramadhan, Vice President of Iraq.
 
February 25

•    Speech delivered at the Thirteenth Summit of the Non-Aligned Countries Movement.
•    Conversation with Mahathir Mohamed, Prime Minister of Malaysia, at the World Trade Center of Putra.
•    Conversation with Atal Bihari Vajpayeec, Prime Minister of India, at the World Trade Center of Putra.
•    Conversation with Seller Mohammed Khatami, President of Iran, at the World Trade Center of Putra.
•    Conversation with Chandrika Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, at the World Trade Center of Putra.
•    Conversation with El Hadj Omar Bongo, President of Gabon, at the World Trade Center of Putra.
•    Conversation with Bounngang Vorachit, Prime Minister of Laos, at the World Trade Center of Putra.
•    Conversation with Ismael Omar Guelleh, President of Djibouti, at the World Trade Center of Putra.
•    Conversation with Rafic Hariri, President of the Council of Ministers of Lebanon, at the World Trade Center of Putra.
•    Conversation with Abdul Halim Khaddam, Vice President of Syria, at the World Trade Center of Putra.
•    Conversation with Joaquim Alberto Chissano, President of Mozambique.
•    Conversation with Mahathir bin Mohamad, Prime Minister of Malaysia.
•    Conversation with Amani Abeid Karume, President of Zanzibar (Tanzania).
•    Exchange with personalities such as: Percival James Patterson, Prime Minister of Jamaica; Begum Khaleda Zia, President of Bangladesh, and Sam Nujoma, President of Namibia.
•    Speech delivered during the closing ceremony of the Thirteenth Summit of the Non-Aligned Countries Movement at the World Trade Center in Putra.
 
People’s Republic of China
Beijing
 
February 26

•    Arrival at Beijing’s international airport.
•    Private conversation with Jiang Zemin, President of the People’s Republic of China, at the People’s Grand Palace.
•    Official talks with Jiang Zemin, President of the People’s Republic of China, at the People’s Grand Palace.
•    Welcome ceremony held at the Big North Hall of the People’s Grand Palace.
•    Signing of an economic and technical cooperation agreement between the People’s Republic of China and Cuba.
 
February 27

•    Conversation with Li Peng, president of the Permanent Committee of the People’s National Assembly.
•    Conversation with Zhu Rongji, Prime Minister of China, at Zhongnanhai, the official headquarters of the government of the People’s Republic of China.
•    Conversation with Hu Jintao, Secretary General of the Communist Party of China, at Zhongnanhai, the official headquarters of the government of the People’s Republic of China.
•    Conversation with Wen Jiabao, First Deputy Minister of the Permanent Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China, at Zhongnanhai, the official headquarters of the government of the People’s Republic of China.
•    Meeting with Cuban workers at the Cuban embassy in China, as well as with former ambassadors Liu Peinen, Wang Chngjia, Tang Yonggui, Yu Yicong and Chen Jiucheng, and Xu Shincheng, the author of the book ‘Fidel vs. the US Presidents’, at the Cuban embassy in Beijing.
 
February 28

•    Meetings with Latin American and Caribbean  ambassadors accredited to China at the ‘Siji’ Hall.
•    Tour around the scientific and technological park of Zhon Guan Cun.
 
Nanjing
 

•    Tour around the factory of the ‘Panda’ entrepreneurial group.
•    Speech delivered at the theatre of the factory of the ‘Panda’ entrepreneurial group.
•    Fidel watched a film about the progress attained by the ‘Panda’ entrepreneurial group.
 
Shanghai
 
March 1st

•    Fidel went on a boat trip down the Yangtze river.
•    He visited the museum of the Technological City in the area of Pundong.
•    Exchange with Jian Sixian, deputy mayor of Shanghai.
•    Visit to the main venue of the future Expo 2010, an exhibition of the achievements attained by many countries.
•    Visit to the scale model of the city of Pundong.
•    Farewell lunch offered by Jiang Zemin, President of the People’s Republic of China.
 
Japan
Tokyo

 
•    Arrival at Haneda airport.
•    Meeting with Tomoyoshi Kondo, President of the Japan-Cuba Economic Conference and with representatives of fifty companies belonging to that organization, at the Akasaka Prince Hotel.
 
March 2
•    Words pronounced during the luncheon hosted in his honor by the Japan-Cuba Friendship Parliamentary League, presided by Hiroshi Mitsuzuka, former Foreign Minister, at the Akasaka Prince Hotel.
•    Conversation with Ryuatro Hashimoto, former Prime Minister of Japan, at the Akasaka Prince Hotel.
•    Meeting with Tamisuke Watanuki, Presidente of Japan’s Diet; Mutsuo Mabuchi, Japanese ambassador to Cuba, and members of the Democrat Liberal Party government group, at Japan’s Parliament.
•    Courtesy visit paid to Junichiro Koizumo, Prime Minister of Japan, at the protocol house of the Chancellery.
 
Hiroshima

March 3
•    Arrival at the local airport.
•    Words pronounced during the lunch hosted in his honor by Yusan Fujita and Tadatoshi Akiba, governor and mayor of the city respectively, at  the Righa Royal Hiroshima Hotel.
•    Fidel laid a wreath on the marble cenotaph honoring the victims of the atom bomb, at the Peace Park.
•    Interview to the press while touring the funeral monument museum honoring the victims of the atom bomb, at the Peace Park.
 
Canada
Vancouver
 

•    Press conference at Delta Hotel