-DATE- 19720518 -YEAR- 1972 -DOCUMENT_TYPE- MEETING -AUTHOR- F. CASTRO -HEADLINE- OFFICIAL BULGARIAN-CUBAN TALKS OPEN IN SOFIA -PLACE- BULGARIA -SOURCE- SOFIA DOMESTIC SVC -REPORT_NBR- FBIS -REPORT_DATE- 19720519 -TEXT- OFFICIAL BULGARIAN-CUBAN TALKS OPEN IN SOFIA Morning Meeting Sofia Domestic Service in Bulgarian 1030 GMT 18 May 72 A [Text] Official talks opened this morning at the Congress Hall in Sofia between party-government delegations of the Bulgarian People's Republic, headed by Todor Zghivkov, first secretary of the BCP Central Committee and chairman of the State Council, and the Republic of Cuba, headed by Fidel Castro, first secretary of the Cuban Communist Party [PCC] Central Committee and chairman of the Revolutionary Government. The Bulgarian delegation consists of: Stanko Todorov, Politburo member of the BCP Central Committee and chairman of the Council of Ministers; Grisha Filipov, secretary of the BCP Central Committee; Prof Mako Dakov, deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers and chairman of the Bulgarian side of the mixed Bulgarian-Cuban Commission for Economic and Scientific-Technical Cooperation; Army Gen Dobri Dzhuroz, minister of national defense; Vulkan Shopov, minister of agriculture and food industry; Georgi Karamanev, minister of internal trade and services; Eng Encho Moskov, first secretary of the Dimitrove Communist Youth Union Central Committee; Radenko Grigorov, first deputy minister of foreign affairs; Gancho Krustev, first secretary of the Tolbukhin Okrug BCP Committee; and Angel Budev, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Bulgarian People's Republic in Cuba. The Cuban delegation includes: Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, member of the PCC Central Committee secretariat and minister of the Revolutionary Government; Commandante, Flavio Bravo Pardo, member of the PCC Central Committee; Jose Naranjo Morales, member of the PCC Central Committee and minister of food industry; Commandante Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, member of the PCC Central Committee; Filipe Torres, member of the PCC Central Committee and ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Republic of Cuba in Bulgaria Commandant Julio Camacho Aguillera, member of the PCC Central Committee and first secretary of the Pinar del Rio Provincial PCC Committee; First Captain Artureo Linse Fernandez Rodriguez, minister of internal trade; Osmany Cienfuegos, member of the PCC Central Committee, Captain Julian Rizo Alvarez, first secretary of the Matanzas Province PCC Committee; and Mauro Garcia Triana, director of the Socialist Countries Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Also taking part in the talks are advisers and experts attached to the two party-government delegations. -END-