Present at the remembrance meeting held in Cuba were personages of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, the Cuban Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification and
Kim Il Sung Economic Special School and masses and the DPRK ambassador to Cuba and staff members of his embassy.

Jose Manuel Garcia Torres, vice-chairman of the Cuban Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification, said in a speech made at the meeting that Kim Il Sung devoted his all to the revolution and the people all his life.

The Cuban people always remember the facts that Kim Il Sung, their close friend, extended disinterested support to Cuba each time the Cuban revolution underwent the most stern trials and he accorded Fidel Castro Ruz cordial hospitality during the latter's visit to the DPRK, he stressed.

Present at the remembrance meeting held in China were figures of the China Association for International Friendly Contact and the Beijing Association for International Friendly Contact, families of the persons related to the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle and officials of the Beijing Nanjiao Farm and the China-Korea Friendship Hongxing Farm.

Present there on invitation were the DPRK ambassador to China and staff members of his embassy and the delegation of the DPRK-China Friendship Association.

Li Xiaohua, vice-president of the China Association for International Friendly Contact, and Feng Yila, family member of a Chinese related to the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, and other speakers said at the meeting that Kim Il Sung devoted all his energies to the liberation of Korea, socialist construction and independent reunification all his life, adding that he was a close friend and comrade-in-arms of the Chinese people.

They stated that Kim Il Sung is boundlessly revered by the Chinese people for forging and fostering the great Sino-DPRK friendship together with Chairman Mao Zedong and making an immortal contribution to the development of the good neighborly and cooperative relations between the two countries.