They included Bonakele Majuba, secretary of the Mfumalanga Provincial Committee of the South African Communist Party and chairman of the South African Association of Friendship and Solidarity with Korean People, a delegation of the Federal Republic of Germany-DPRK Association led by its chairman Thomas Reicherdt, Ludmila Levkova, chief of the Russia-Korea Children's Friendship Association Named after Kim Jong Il and principal of 11th Middle School in Khabarovsk City, Otete Gaston Mboyo, deputy general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Democratic Congo and chairman of the Democratic Congo-Korea Friendship and Solidarity Association, a delegation of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and the China-Korea Friendship Association headed by Wu Donghe, chairman of the China-Korea Friendship Association, Alexandr Brezhnev, writer and poet of the Russian Union of Writers, and his party,.

Arriving here earlier were Irina Malenko, Irish delegate for friendship, and a delegation of the French preparatory committee for celebrating the centenary of the birth of President Kim Il Sung headed by Benua Tenedei, vice-chairman of the France-Korea Friendship Association.

Arriving here on Monday to participate in the 28th April Spring Friendship Art Festival were the Indonesian government cultural delegation headed by I Gusti Puta Laksaguna, inspector general of the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, the Chinese art group (the Song and Dance Ensemble of the General Political Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army), a Chinese acrobatic group, the Malaysia My Harmonica World Ensemble, the Surya Chorus of Indonesia and the Chamber Orchestra Alberic Magnard of France.

Departing here on the same day was the delegation of diplomatic officials of the Chinese People's Liberation Army led by Major General Qian Lihua, director of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Ministry of National Defense.