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-DATE- 19720517 -YEAR- 1972 -DOCUMENT_TYPE- APPEARANCE -AUTHOR- F. CASTRO -HEADLINE- 10 DAY VISIT TO BULGARIA -PLACE- SOFIA -SOURCE- SOFIA DOMESTIC SVC -REPORT_NBR- FBIS -REPORT_DATE- 19720518 -TEXT- CASTRO ENTOURAGE BEGINS OFFICIAL 10-DAY VISIT
Dimitrov Order Presentation
Sofia Domestic Service in Bulgarian 1830 GMT 17 May 72 A
[Text] Following its arrival, the Cuban party-government delegation visited the State Council. The delegation was cordially welcomed by Comrade Todor Zhivkov, Stanko Todorov, Boris Velchev, Konstantin Tellalov and other party and state leaders.
Comrade Todor Zhivkov presented the Georgi Dimitrov Order to Fidel Castro for his services to the struggle of the Cuban people against imperialism as well as for the building of socialism in Cuba and for strengthening friendship and cooperation between Bulgaria and Cuba.
Orders were presented to the other members of the Cuban delegation as well.
Comrade Todor Zhivkov congratulated those awarded for their high distinctions. In reply, Fidel Castro expressed his extreme gratitude for this and emphasized that today was a happy day for the guests who arrived in the fatherland and among the people of Georgi Dimitrov. We also expressed gratitude for the warm welcome accorded him and those accompanying him by the Bulgarian leaders and people.
Tonight Fidel Castro laid a wreath at the mausoleum of the immortal leader and teacher of the Bulgarian people and eminent worker of the international communist workers movement, Georgi Dimitrov.
The list of the official persons included in the Cuban party-government delegation to Bulgaria is as follows: Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, member of the Cuban Communist Party [PCC] Central Committee Secretariat and minister of the revolutionary government; Maj Flavio Bravo Pardo, member of the PCC Central Committee and [official] responsible for consumption and servicing sector; Jose Naranjo Morales, member of the PCC Central Committee and minister of food industry, Maj Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, member of the PCC Central Committee and commander of the army corps commander in Pinar del Rio, Maj Orlando Rodriguez Puerta, member of the PCC Central Committee and infantry division commander of the army of Havana, Maj Julio Comacho Aguillera, member of the PCC Central Committee and first secretary of the PCC in the province of Pinar del Rio, Maj Ramon Pardo Guerra, member of the PCC Central Committee and first deputy commander of the armored tank division of the army of Havana; Felipe Torres, member of the PCC Central Committee and Cuban ambassador of Bulgaria; First Captain Serafin Fernandez Rodriguez, minister of internal trade; Capt Julian Rizo Alvarez, first secretary of the PCC in the province of Matanzas; Maj Cedar Lara Rosello, member of the PCC Central Committee and commander of the army corps in Camaguey; first Captain Arturo Linse Gonzalez, first secretary of the PCC on the island of Pinos; Jaime Crombet Hernandez, first secretary of the National Committee the Union of Young Communists, and Mauro Garcia Triana, director of the socialist countries department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. -END-
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