-DATE- 19870329 -YEAR- 1987 -DOCUMENT_TYPE- MEETING -AUTHOR- F. CASTRO -HEADLINE- CASTRO-CHEBRIKOV MEETING -PLACE- HAVANA -SOURCE- MOSCOW PRAVDA -REPORT_NBR- FBIS -REPORT_DATE- 19870329 -TEXT- Castro-Chebrikov Meeting PM301345 Moscow PRAVDA in Russian 30 Mar First Edition p 5 [TASS report: "Visit to Cuba"] [Text] Havana, 29 Mar -- V.M. Chebrikov, member of the CPSU Central Committee Polituburo and chairman the USSR Committee for State Security, who is on an official friendly visit here, has met with Fidel Castro, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba [PCC] Central Committee and president of the Councils of State and of Ministers. Taking part in talks were Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, member of the PCC Central Committee Polithuro and vice president of the Councils of State and of Ministers; Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, member of the PCC Central Committee Polithuro and Secretariat; Jorge Risquet, member of the PCC Central Committee Polithuro and Secretariat; and Division General Jose Abrahantes, member of the PCC Central Committee and minister of the interior. V.M. Chebrikov conveyed cordial greetings and best wishes to Fidel Castro and the entire Cuban leadership from M.S. Gorbachev, general secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, and other Soviet leaders. In turn, Fidel Castro expressed sincere appreciation for the attention and warm words. He asked that fraternal greetings be conveyed to M.S. Gorbachev, the CPSU Central Committee, the Soviet Government, and the entire Soviet people. Fidel Castro spoke about the work which is under way in Cuba to implement the decisions of the Third PCC Congress aimed at improving socialist production and social relations and introducing effective forms and methods of accelerating socialist building. On behalf of the Soviet leadership V.M. Chebrikov wished the Communists and all socialist Cuba's working people the successful implementation of their plans. V.M Chebrikov reported on the first results of the implementation in the USSR of the decisions of the 27th CPSU Congress and about the progress of the process of restructuring and renewal in various spheres of Soviet society's life. The special importance for the work of Communists and the entire Soviet people of the the CPSU Central Committee January (1987) Plenum, which defined restructuring and cadre policy tasks at the present stage of socialist building with a view to fully reveal the inexhaustible potential of socialism, was emphasized. Fidel Castro spoke highly of the decisions of the CPSU Central Committee January Plenum and wished Soviet Communists and all the Soviet working people success in the swift implementation of those decisions. A.S. Kapto, Soviet ambassador to the Republic of Cuba, was present at the meeting. On the same day V.M. Chebrikov laid a wreath at the monument to Jose Marti, the Cuban people's national hero. -END-