-DATE- 19731004 -YEAR- 1973 -DOCUMENT_TYPE- INTERVIEW -AUTHOR- F. CASTRO -HEADLINE- GOVERNMENT CONGRATULATES NEW GDR LEADERS -PLACE- CUBA -SOURCE- HAVANA DOMESTIC SVC -REPORT_NBR- FBIS -REPORT_DATE- 19731005 -TEXT- GOVERNMENT CONGRATULATES NEW GDR LEADERS Havana Domestic Service in Spanish 2032 GMT 4 Oct 73 F [Text] Signed by Prime Minister Fidel Castro and President Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado, our Revolutionary Government sent a congratulatory message to the new GDR leaders. The message is addressed to Comrades Willi Stoph and Horst Zimmermann, chairman of the Council of State and chairman of the Council of Ministers respectively. The message reads as follows: In this opportunity of your appointments to new and high posts in the state and government of the German Democratic Republic, we are pleased in sending your our most fraternal congratulations and hereby ratify with the friendship of our people the firm decision of the Cuban Revolutionary Government to strengthen increasingly more the close ties and collaboration existing between our governments. -END-