Viaje al Exterior

The United States of America, 1995

 

October 21 •    Arrival at the “John F. Kennedy” international airport.
•    Meeting with a group of Peggy Dulany’s guests at the Council of Foreign Relations.
•    Meeting with Cuban émigrés at the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations.
•    Fidel attended a dinner hosted in his honor by David Rockefeller, an influential American financier and philanthropist.
 
October 22

•    Speech delivered at the special commemorative session of the United Nations General Assembly.
•    Fidel attended a luncheon hosted by Boutros Ghali, Secretary-General of the United Nations at the UN headquarters.
•    Interview granted to Bernard Shaw, journalist of the American television network CNN.
•    Visit to the former Hotel Theresa.
•    Speech delivered at a meeting in solidarity with Cuba, at the Abyssinian Church in Harlem.
 
October 23

•    Conversation held with Jiang Zemin, President of China, at the Chinese embassy in New York.
•    Interview granted to Dan Rather, journalist of the American TV network CBS.
•    Meeting with Leslie H. Gelb, chairman of the Council for Foreign Relations (CFR) and academics and experts in foreign relations.
•    Interview granted to Tom Brokaw, journalist of the American television network NBC.
•    Meeting with the members of the US-Cuba Trade Economic Council.
•    Speech delivered at a meeting with representatives of the Puerto Rican community in the Bronx district.
 
October 24

•    Words pronounced at the ceremony to establish diplomatic relations between Cuba and the Principality of Andorra at the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations.
•    Interview granted to Radio Andorra, at the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations.
•    Interview granted to Susana Ugarte, journalist of Prensa Latina, at the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations.
•    Meeting with entrepreneurs and personalities from the media at the residence of Mortimer Zuckermann, owner of the Daily News and the US News and World Report.
•    Meeting with the chairman of the newspapers Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal.
•    Conversation held with Joseph Moakley, Democrat Representative from Massachusetts.
 
October 25

•    Meeting with presidents and members of the Board of Directors of the newspaper The New York Times.
•    Meeting with executives of ‘Time’ magazine.
•    Meeting with Pastors for Peace at the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations.
•    Interview granted to Maria Elvira Salazar, journalist of the Spanish language TV program ‘Telenoticias’ at the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations.
•    Meeting with the staff of the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations.