-DATE- 19720526 -YEAR- 1972 -DOCUMENT_TYPE- INTERVIEW -AUTHOR- F. CASTRO -HEADLINE- CASTRO CATEGORICALLY DENIES HE WILL MEET NIXON -PLACE- CUBA -SOURCE- HAVANA PRELA -REPORT_NBR- FBIS -REPORT_DATE- 19720531 -TEXT- CASTRO CATEGORICALLY DENIES HE WILL MEET NIXON Havana PRELA in English 300 GMT 27 May 72 C--FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY [Text] Sofia, 26 May (PL)--Fidel Castro has categorically denied that he has any intention of meeting President Richard Nixon in the near future, as the Mexican press recently alleged. "I am not interested and what's more I wouldn't accept any meeting of the type," the Cuban leader said. He was speaking to more than a hundred newsmen on the eve of his departure for Romania. He said the Cuban position did not imply criticism of anybody. It was simply the attitude whose opinion had not been sought by the imperialists when they decided to impose their blockades or perpetuate their acts of aggression. Premier Castro referred to the conditions which the United States has repeatedly stated to the prerequisites for the normalizing the relations with his country. He reiterated "we will not break our links with the Soviet Union, nor with the socialist camp, nor will we allow the neuralization or the Cuban revolution, nor will we give up supporting the revolutionary movement." He pointed out that these were "Cuba's firm and intransigent positions. We are not prepared to give an inch in our position." "What have we got to talk about the Nixon?" the Cuban leader asked. He replied to his own question: "Nixon doesn't interest us Nixon's getting old and revolutions are young. They have become the order of the day. The times are in favor of the revolution." In reply to a French reporter Prime Minister Castro pointed out that: "Nixon is fighting like a desperate man to get himself reelected for another 4 years. "And what does it matter to us if we have to wait 2, 4, or 10 years? We have stood up to the toughest and most difficult of tests and we've come out on top. We have survived. We have raised a revolutionary banner. We have become a revolutionary bulwark in the Caribbean, a support and example for revolutions in the Latin American continent and it would not make any kind of sense for us to make concessions to the United States." Premier Castro made it extremely clear that "Nixon is the one who has to make the move" if there was to be any question of talks. But first Nixon would have to: --Stop his "world policement: policy; --Stop his attacks and acts of intervention against Latin American countries; --Stop his war in Vietnam; --Stop his blockade of Cuba; --Withdraw the Guantanamo naval base from Cuba's territory. Prime Minister Castro made it clear that the Americans would have to meet all these requirements and meet then unconditionally. "They didn't talk it over with us when they imposed their blockade on Cuba. We haven't got anything to talk over with them now. That's out position, I can't understand why all these reports keep coming out about a possible meeting. We are not interested in any kind of meeting with Nixon and Nixon knows that perfectly well. And Kissinger and all the advisers that go with him know it better than anybody. "These gentlemen won't be going to Havana nor will they have any kind of meeting with us. We have nothing to discuss with them. "Have you all got that clear?" Premier Castro asked the newsmen. -END-