-DATE- 19720501 -YEAR- 1972 -DOCUMENT_TYPE- MEETING -AUTHOR- F. CASTRO -HEADLINE- CASTRO MEETS WITH BULGARIANS -PLACE- THEATRE OF THE COMMUNICATIONS MINISTRY -SOURCE- HAVANA IN SPANISH -REPORT_NBR- FBIS -REPORT_DATE- 19720502 -TEXT- Castro Meets With Bulgarians Havana in Spanish in the Americas 1600 GMT 1 May 72 C [Text] Maj Fidel Castro, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and prime minister of the Revolutionary Government, has met with Bulgarian technicians and specialists working in our country. The meeting, held at the theatre of the Communications Ministry in Havana, was organized by the Bulgarian Embassy in Cuba. Maj Fidel Castro said that the meeting was special, and above all sincere, spontaneous and friendly. Fidel said: You have taught us things about the Bulgarian revolution that we would not have learned otherwise. In Cuba you have stood for the best of your country and you have taught us what, in our opinion, should be the exemplary revolutionary technician. He added: This view I express also applies to the technicians from the other socialist countries, particularly the Soviet specialists who have worked in Cuba these past years. Further, the Cuban prime minister said: The decade-long work of approximately 3,000 Bulgarian technicians and specialists is a very strong foundation for strengthening a friendship such as the one that has emerged between Cuba and Bulgaria. Fidel pointed out: Together we have lived the experience of working, struggling, creating work and a new life. Thanks to your work, a very beautiful valuable and exemplary thing has been created, a moral treasure. Fidel said: With our date of departure so near, we have nostalgically (?inspected) the projects here at the dams, the bridges and the roads. But there is something to compensate for this nostalgia--knowing that you are here working, knowing that when we arrive in Bulgaria, we will feel as if we were in our own fatherland. Angel Budev, the Bulgarian ambassador in Cuba, made a speech to salute the Cuban prime minister and the delegation that will accompany him to Bulgaria. Later on, a Bulgarian technician. Kaycho Boyadyiev, read a letter expressing the most heartfelt sentiments of solidarity from the Bulgarian personnel working in Cuba and saluting the upcoming tour of the Cuban delegation headed by Fidel. Also present at the meeting were Maj Ramiro Valdes, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba, and Jesus Montane from the Secretariat of Organization. -END-