Speeches were made there.

Anita Chopra, president of the Indian Working Women Society for the Study of the Juche Philosophy, said that the Korean people are sure to achieve successes in their struggle to glorify this year as a year of a new great surge.

Akrak Aktar Hamidi, chairman of the Society for the Study of Self-Reliance of Pakistan, expressed his belief that the Korean people will win only victory in the struggle for the building of a great prosperous powerful nation and the country's prosperity, true to the Songun leadership of General Secretary Kim Jong Il.

Nigatu Dagnachew, chairman of the Ethiopian Youth Study Group of the Juche Idea, said that he witnessed the Korean people's revolutionary spirit of self-reliance, particularly the Korean youth's indomitable fighting spirit when he visited the DPRK and stressed that the entire army and all the people firmly rallied as one around the leader will surely build a great prosperous powerful nation.