-DATE- 19841031 -YEAR- 1984 -DOCUMENT_TYPE- INTERVIEW -AUTHOR- F. CASTRO -HEADLINE- 39TH CEMA MEETING -PLACE- PALACE OF CONVENTIONS -SOURCE- HAVANA DOMESTIC SVC -REPORT_NBR- FBIS -REPORT_DATE- 19841031 -TEXT- Further Castro Remarks FL310052 Havana Domestic Service in Spanish 0000 GMT 31 Oct 84 [Text] In spite of the Reagan administration forcing us to prepare ourselves militarily and to divert resources for defense, Cuba's economy has grown 9.8 percent this year. This statement was made by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro on speaking at the 39th CEMA meeting being held at the Palace of Conventions. Fidel said that our relations with capitalist nations are structured by the sharp price decreases in sugar and nickel. Therefore, only the fact that Cuba belongs to the socialist community, along with the creative work of its people, has allowed the country to advance. Castro reiterated that Cuba's economic successes have been guaranteed without dropping its internationalist obligations toward a group of nations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, especially in Nicaragua and Angola. The Cuban leader said that if the world, with the socialist countries in the forefront, is able to reject, as we believe it will, the Reagan administration's senseless positions, which lead to nuclear devastation, the prepared development plans to the year 2000 will be implemented. -END-