Speeches were made at the meetings.

Rashed Khan Menon, chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Bangladesh, and Hasanul Huq Inu, chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Bangladesh National Socialist Party, noted that thanks to the original Songun policy of Kim Jong Il peace and stability are being preserved on the Korean Peninsula and the DPRK has turned into a military power which no formidable enemy dares provoke.

Bonakele Majuba, secretary of the Mfumalanga Provincial Committee of the South African Communist Party who is chairman of the South African Association of Friendship and Solidarity with Korean People, said that under the outstanding leadership of Kim Jong Il the DPRK made signal successes startling the world as evidenced by its successful launch of satellite Kwangmyongsong-2, perfection of the Juche iron production system and mass-production of vinalon cotton. This is a stirring reality one can witness only in the DPRK guided by the Juche idea, he stressed.

Martin Lotscher, chairman of the Switzerland-Korea Committee, spoke highly of the feats performed by Kim Jong Il in the movement for Korea's reunification. He expressed full sympathy with the statement of the DPRK Foreign Ministry calling for replacing the Korean Armistice Agreement by a peace treaty and extended positive support to the Korean people in their cause of achieving the reunification of the country and building a thriving nation.

Messages of greetings to Kim Jong Il were adopted at the meetings held in Bulgaria and Switzerland.

Vasile Orleanu, chairman of the Supreme Council of the Socialist Party of Romania, in a statement issued on Feb. 15 said that it is Kim Jong Il's unique mode of leading the masses to always find himself among the people, share the destiny with them and energetically arouse them to the revolution and construction.