Speeches were made at the functions.

C. P. Mainali, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Nepal Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist), said that Kim Il Sung is the benevolent liberator of the Korean nation as he saved the Korean people from the Japanese imperialists' colonial rule and the great leader who was acclaimed for the first time in the Korean history of 5,000 years. He is also an elder statesman in the 20th century who led the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal democratic revolution and the socialist revolution to victory despite manifold trials and hardships and challenges, the speaker added.

The secretary general of the Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Committee of Nepal praised Kim Il Sung as the greatest person whom no leader of the world can match in ideology, exploits and traits.

Yuri Vanin, first vice-chairman of the Russian Association for Friendship and Cultural Cooperation with the DPRK, highly lauded Kim Il Sung as the great revolutionary who devoted all his life to the country and the revolution, the father of the people possessed of genuine popular traits, the prominent leader with incomparably great ideas and theories and ample knowledge and an experienced statesman who built socialism in Korea in reliance on its own efforts.

Vladimir Veredin, secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Soviet Union, stressed that Kim Il Sung is the greatest man among the revolutionaries in the 20th century as he turned the DPRK into an impregnable bulwark for socialism and peace, regarding it as his motto to believe in the people as in Heaven.

L. Shukolinikov, coordinating secretary of the National Social Federation "for the Union and Union's Communist Party" of Belarus, said: Kim Il Sung, the great leader of the Korean people and a prominent activist of the international labor movement, is always alive in our hearts.

A message to General Secretary Kim Jong Il was adopted at the remembrance meeting held in Russia.