They were the Russian president, the Cuban President of the Council of Ministers who doubles as first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the Council of State, the Lao president who doubles as general secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, the Nepali president, the Lebanese president, the president of Myanmar, the Mongolian president, the Bahraini king, the Bangladeshi president, the Syrian president who doubles as regional secretary of the Arab Baath Socialist Party, the Sri Lankan president, the Cambodian great king and king, the Kuwaiti emir, the Thai king, the Pakistani president, the chief of the Palestinian National Authority who doubles as Palestinian president and chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Kazakh president, the emir of the States of Qatar, the Kirgyz president, the Turkmen president, the Armenian president, the Afghan president,

the Omani sultan, the Jordanian king, the Iranian president, the Indonesian president, the president of Belarus, the Croatian president, the Spanish king, the Ghanaian president, the Guinean president, the Namibian president, the Nigerian president and commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, the South African president, the Nigerien president, the Mauritanian president, the president of Burkina Faso, the president of Sao Tome and Principe, the Sudanese president, the Senegalese president, the Seychellois president, the Zambian president, the Equatorial Guinean president who doubles as president of the African Union, the Chadian president and head of state, the Kenyan president, the Tanzanian president, the Congolese president, the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Tunisian president, the Algerian president, the Angolan president, the Ugandan president, the Eritrean president, the chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces of Egypt, the Ethiopian pr

esident, the Guyanese president, the Nicaraguan president, the president of the Commonwealth of Dominica, the Brazilian president, the chairman of the Central Committee of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), the secretary general of the United Malays National Organization of Malaysia, the general chairman of the Central Directive Council of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the secretary general of the African National Congress of South Africa, the chairman of the Federation for Mauritania and the coordinator of the National Coordinating Committee of the Workers' Party of Mexico.

He also sent similar messages to the prime ministers of Nepal, Mongolia, Bahrain, Pakistan, Qatar, Lesotho, Grenada and Belize, the secretary general of the International Kim Il Sung Prize Council who doubles as director-general of the International Institute of the Juche Idea, the director general of the International Kim Il Sung Fund and the secretary general of the International Institute of the Juche Idea.

In the messages he expressed deep thanks for sending profound condolences and sincere sympathy on the demise of Kim Jong Il.

Expressing belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the DPRK and those countries would invariably grow stronger, he wished successes to them.