Transcript: Analysis: Cuban government requests visas for Fidel Castro to attend UN Millennium Summit in New York

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Analysis: Cuban government requests visas for Fidel Castro to attend UN Millennium Summit in New York

Host: LINDA WERTHEIMER Time: 8:00-9:00 PM

LINDA WERTHEIMER, host:

Cuban President Fidel Castro wants to come to the United States. The Cuban Foreign Ministry says it has requested visas for Castro and other top officials to travel to New York next week to attend the United Nations Millennium Summit. It will be Castro's first visit to the United States since 1995, when he attended the UN's 50th anniversary celebration. NPR's Tom Gjelten reports.

TOM GJELTEN reporting:

The last time Fidel Castro was in New York for a UN meeting, he visited a ...

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