At the meeting in Nepal speakers warmly congratulated Kim Jong Il on his successful unofficial visit to China. They said that the visit was a historic event which showed how great he is attaching importance to the traditional DPRK-China friendship provided by their leaders of the elder generation.

His China visit displayed the stand and will of the two governments and peoples to carry forward through generations the DPRK-China friendly and cooperative relations which covered the glorious historic course and has entered a new higher stage, they said.

During the visit Kim Jong Il went round various places of China associated with the precious footsteps of President Kim Il Sung again and recollected the history of his revolutionary activities, the chairman of the Ostfold County Committee of the Communist Party of Norway said, adding that this is an expression of his boundless reverence for the President, founder of socialist Korea.

The director of the Myanmar Medical Research Institute noted that during the 6 000km-long tour of China Kim Jong Il was accorded cordial hospitality by senior officials and people of China with sincerity.

He is an elder statesman of the world and the peerlessly great man who pushes forward the development of international relations and victorious advance of the human cause of independence and peace, the director stressed.