-DATE- 19910204 -YEAR- 1991 -DOCUMENT_TYPE- -AUTHOR- -HEADLINE- Castro Concerned About Trade With USSR -PLACE- CARIBBEAN / Cuba -SOURCE- Madrid EFE -REPORT_NBR- FBIS-LAT-91-023 -REPORT_DATE- 19910204 -HEADER- BRS Assigned Document Number: 000001890 Report Type: Daily Report AFS Number: PA0402041491 Report Number: FBIS-LAT-91-023 Report Date: 04 Feb 91 Report Series: Daily Report Start Page: 1 Report Division: CARIBBEAN End Page: 1 Report Subdivision: Cuba AG File Flag: Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Language: Spanish Document Date: 04 Feb 91 Report Volume: Monday Vol VI No 023 Dissemination: City/Source of Document: Madrid EFE Report Name: Latin America Headline: Castro Concerned About Trade With USSR Source Line: PA0402041491 Madrid EFE in Spanish 0305 GMT 4 Feb 91 -TEXT- FULL TEXT OF ARTICLE: 1. [Text] Havana, 3 Feb (EFE)--Cuban President Fidel Castro today expressed concern over the possibility that the USSR will be unable to fulfill the trade agreements recently signed with his country, despite the Soviet authorities' political willingness to maintain these bilateral relations. 2. Castro delivered a brief speech today at the assembly of the Havana Province Communist Party, which has been been meeting for two days to study the general situation of the province as part of the preparations for the fourth Communist Party, which will be held in the first half of 1991, at an undetermined date. 3. ``In the USSR there is a political willingness to maintain trade relations with Cuba at a reasonable level, but the difficulties that the USSR is experiencing make its timely fulfillment unpredictable,'' the leader of the Cuban revolution stated. 4. Castro confirmed that the strategic lines of utmost priority for the country's development in these difficult times are: the ``food plan,'' the development of tourism, and the promotion of biotechnology and the pharmaceutical industry. 5. The ``food plan'' must guarantee the island's self-sufficiency in the area of food, replacing what it used to import. 6. In this regard, Castro explained that the country's main agricultural problem is not the shortage of land but the lack of manpower. As a result, more than 200,000 residents of the Cuban capital will have to work on agricultural projects near Havana in 1991. -END-