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Roa, Raúl

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Fidel Castro, 1959.

Castro, Fidel

1926- 2016

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Thant, U

1909- 1974

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October 28, 1962	Telegram from Yugoslav Embassy in Havana (Vidaković) to Yugoslav Foreign Ministry Foreign Minister Raúl Roa said to the Yugoslavian official that Fidel’s last declaration (his 5 point statement on 28 October) was directed more at Khrushchev than to Kennedy.
October 25, 1962	Message from Swiss Embassy in Havana (Stadelhofer) to Swiss Foreign Ministry Stadelhofer speaks with Cuban Foreign Minister Raúl Roa, who assures Stadelhofer that he is working on putting a meeting together with Fidel Castro and Swiss officials.
November 14, 1962	Telegram from the Brazilian Embassy in Havana (Bastian Pinto), 12:15 p.m., Wednesday A conversation between Pinto and Raul Roa discussing denuclearization of Latin America and the dismantling of bases like Guantanamo. Pinto also writes that the denuclearization of Africa was an initiative of Fidel Castro in the UN in 1960, and he praised the Brazilian draft, saying that, with the Cuban amendments, it would be an effective guarantee for Latin America and an important step toward disarmament and the suspension of nuclear tests.
November 9, 1962	Telegram from the Brazilian Embassy in Havana (Bastian Pinto), 7:45 p.m., Friday Pinto describes his conversation with the Cuban Minister of External Relations, Raúl Roa, which he says confirmed his impressions that the Cuban government, conscious of the gravity of the situation, is disposed to make concessions to reach a minimal guarantee.
November 9, 1962	Telegram from the Brazilian Embassy in Havana (Bastian Pinto), 11:30 a.m., Friday Pinto meets with Anastas Mikoyan and Fidel Castro to discuss Brazilian-Soviet-Cuban relations.
November 5, 1962	Telegram from the Brazilian Embassy in Havana (Bastian Pinto), 4:45 p.m., Monday Pinto describes two recent speeches, one by Kennedy the other by Castro, and appears to give more credit and praise to the speech by Castro. He also discusses the Cuban crisis situation in general.
October 28, 1962	Telegram from the Brazilian Embassy in Havana (Bastian Pinto), 6:45 p.m., Sunday Pinto describes a meeting with Roa in which Roa repeats a message from Fidel Castro's proclamation that the evacuation of the American base Guantanamo should be directed at not only the United States, but also the Soviet Union, to show both that Cuba is not a toy of the great powers and should be heard in the coming negotiations.
October 27, 1962	Telegram from the Brazilian Embassy in Havana (Bastian Pinto), 5:45 p.m., Saturday Pinto tells the Foreign Ministry that he met with the Cuban Minister of External Relations, Raul Roa, but did not receive the Ministry's telegram message in time to ask Roa their question about the upcoming commission of the United Nations to Cuba and the Cuban government's affirmation that it would not accept any type of audit or inspection.
October 26, 1962	Telegram from the Brazilian Embassy in Havana (Bastian Pinto), 6 p.m., Friday A telegram from the Brazilian Embassy in Havana, Cuba, describing the paralyzed activities in Cuba due to the incalculable damage to the economy of the country because of the American blockade.
October 25, 1962	Telegram from the Brazilian Embassy in Havana (Bastian Pinto), 12:45 p.m., Thursday An attempt to assure the Secretary of State for External Relations, at Minister Roa's request, of the total falsity of the accusation that, in Cuba, there exists any offensive armament and that Cuba solely desires effective guarantees in respect to its integrity and sovereignty and is ready even to dissolve its Army.