Yuri Vanin, first vice-chairman of the Russian Association for Friendship and Cultural Cooperation with the DPRK, and other personages said at the meeting that Kim Jong Il's start of work at the C.C., the WPK was a historic event of weighty significance in the development of the WPK. And they noted with high appreciation that he has creditably carried forward and developed the idea and cause of President Kim Il Sung over the past 46 years.

Congratulatory messages and letters to Kim Jong Il were adopted at the meeting.

Lectures, seminars, a film show and Korean book, photo and handicraft exhibitions were held in Brazil, Democratic Congo and Sweden between June 7 and 10 to celebrate the 46th anniversary of Kim Jong Il's start of work at the WPK Central Committee.

The international secretary of the C.C., the Brazilian Communist Party said in a lecture that since his start of work at the C.C., the WPK Kim Jong Il has cemented the unity and cohesion of the party ranks as firm as rock and developed the WPK into a mass and motherly party taking deep root among the broad strata of people, holding fast to the great Juche idea as the guiding idea of the Party.

Anders Karlsson, chairman of the Communist Party in Sweden, said in a lecture that it is unthinkable without Kim Jong Il's leadership that the WPK has turned into a powerful party always emerging victorious under the invariable banner of socialism despite the difficult situation and conditions.

Appreciated at the film show was the Korean film "Pyongyang Today".

Meanwhile, Osvaldo Pesce, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Unified Communist Party of Italy, made public a statement on the same occasion on June 15.