They included the president of China who doubles as the general secretary of the C.C., the Communist Party of China, the president of Laos who double as the general secretary of the C.C., the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, the presidents of Mongolia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Turkmenistan, the king of Jordan, presidents of Uzbekistan, Iran, Vietnam and Belarus, the president and the head of state of Mali, the president of Tunisia, the chairman of the Mongolian People's Party, the general chairman of the Central Directive Council of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, the general secretary of the C.C., the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the general secretary of the C.C., the Communist Party of Vietnam and the chairwoman of the Party for Peace and Unity of Russia.

He also sent New Year's cards to the prime minister of Pakistan, the head of the Organization Department of the C.C., the Communist Party of China who is member of its Political Bureau and member of its Secretariat, the head of the International Liaison Department of the C.C., the CPC, the director general of the International Kim Il Sung Fund, the head of the State Academy Beryozka Dancing Troup of Russia Named after N.S. Nadezhdina, the head of the Russian State Academic People's Chorus Named after M. E. Pyatnichki, the head of the Academy Ensemble of the Interior Unit of the Russian Ministry of Interior, the head of the "Orchestra of the 21st Century", the governor of Amur Region, the mayor of Khabarovsk and the administrative governor of the Maritime Territory of Russia, the chairman of the Development Bank of the Mediterranean who doubles as the chairman of the Italian General Investment Group and the secretary general of the International Liaison Committee for Reunification and Peace in Korea.