Cuban Chronology 1982

Confidential
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LEBANON
Fidel Castro receives a message of support from PLO chairman Yasir Arafat
regarding Israel’s preparations for war in south Lebanon.
Rene Rodriguez heads a delegation of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with
Peoples (ICAP) to Beirut to visit cities and refugee camps.
Central Committee member Rene Rodriguez travels to Beirut to deliver a message
from Fidel Castro to Yasir Arafat, who briefs Rodriguez on Lebanese political and
military developments.
Cuba and the Palestinian Resistance Movement sign a five-year agreement on
solidarity and cooperation that provides for joint activities in Cuba and Palestinian
refugee camps.
PLO President Yasir Arafat asks Fidel Castro, as President of the Nonaligned
Movement, for the solidarity of the movement in the face of the Israeli forces’ in-
vasion of Lebanon.
Havana Radio reports that Fidel Castro told representatives to the meeting of
Nonaligned countries in Havana that “the criminal aggression of Israel against
Lebanon” must be halted. Fidel Castro sends a message to the heads of state and
government of the Nonaligned Movement requesting solidarity as a result of
Israel’s attacks on Lebanon.
Fidel Castro sends a new appeal to nonaligned members demanding the withdraw-
al of the aggressors from the territory they have occupied in Lebanon. ,
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with UN Secretary General Javier Perez de
Cuellar to discuss the situation in the Malvinas, Israel’s invasion of Lebanon and
developments on disarmament.
Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Syria to assert the Cuban people’s support
for the joint Palestinian-Lebanese forces in the face of the Israeli invasion of
Lebanon.
Foreign Minister Malmierca departs Syria after informing President Hafiz al-
Asad of the steps being taken by Fidel Castro to exert pressure on Israel to
withdraw from Lebanon.
Foreign Minister Malmierca delivers a message from Fidel Castro to PLO
Chairman Yasir Arafat. They discuss a wide range of questions concerning the
Israeli and Lebanon War.
Fidel Castro sends a message to the heads of state and government of the
Nonaligned Movement’s member countries asking help to stop the Israeli attack
against Lebanon.
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