They were a delegation of the Nigerian Preparatory Committee led by Ibrahim Mantu, former deputy president of Senate of the National Assembly of Nigeria and chairman of the Nigeria-Korea Friendship Association and co-chairman of the International Preparatory Committee; a delegation of the Friendship Society Norway-Korea led by its Vice-Chairman Dag Norum, who is co-chairman of the North European Preparatory Committee; a delegation of the Danish Preparatory Committee led by its Chairman Anders Kristensen who is chairman of the Denmark-DPRK Friendship Association; a delegation of the Russian Association for Friendship and Cultural Cooperation with the DPRK led by Co-chairman of the Russian Preparatory Committee Victor Petrov; Eric Sirotkin, chairman for Korean Peace Program of the National Lawyers Guild of the United States; Jesus Antonio Carlos Hernandez, general secretary of the C.C., People's Socialist Party of Mexico who is co-chairman of the American Regional Preparatory Committee and the Mexican national preparatory committee; a delegation of the Bangladesh National Preparatory Committee led by its Chairman Rashed Khan Menon who is chairman of the C.C., Workers' Party of Bangladesh; a delegation of the Bulgarian National Preparatory Committee led by its Vice-Chairman Simeon Ignatov who is chairman of the Bulgaria-Korea Friendship Association; Dilma de Casia Melo, secretary general of the Brazilian Committee for Solidarity with the DPRK; Diego Antonio Rivero, chairman of the Venezuela-Korea Friendship and Solidarity Association and chairman of the Venezuelan Preparatory Committee, and his party; a delegation of the Belarus National Preparatory Committee led by Victor Chikin, chairman of the Permanent Committee of the Belarus-DPRK National Friend Association Named after Kim Il Sung; a delegation of the Swiss Preparatory Committee led by its Chairman Martin Lotscher who is secretary of the Int'l Preparatory Committee and chairman of the Switze rland-Korea Committee; a delegation of the Swedish National Preparatory Committee led by its Chairman Christer Lundgren who is co-chairman of the North European Preparatory Committee and chairman of the Sweden-Korea Friendship Association; Harpal Brar, chairman of the C.C., Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) who is chairman of the British Preparatory Committee and chairman of the British Friendship Society with Korea, and his party; a delegation of the Oceanic Regional Preparatory Committee led by its Neil Fitzgerald who is National chairman of the Australia-DPRK Association for Friendship and Culture; George Burchett, son of Australian writer and journalist Wilfred Burchett; a delegation of the Austrian Preparatory Committee led by its Chairman Adolf Wurzer who is general secretary of the Society for the Promotion of the Relations between Austria and DPRK; Kirunda Kivejinja, chairman of the Ugandan Preparatory Committee and member of the Central Executive C ommittee of the Uganda National Resistance Movement who was the former third deputy prime minister and minister of Internal Affairs, and his party; Eldar Rasulov, director of the Korean Peninsula Study Center of the Institute for Oriental Studies of Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan; Jon Arni Halldorsson, general secretary of the Iceland-DPRK Friendship and Cultural Society who is chairman of the Preparatory Committee of Iceland; a delegation of the Indonesian Preparatory Committee led by its Secretary General Ristiyanto, who is general secretary of the National Guidance Council of the Pioneer Party of Indonesia and chairman of the Indonesia-Korea Association for Friendship and Cultural Exchange; a delegation of the Japanese Preparatory Committee led by its Chairwoman Sumiko Shimizu, who is co-chairwoman of the Int'l Preparatory Committee and representative of the Japanese Women's Society for Solidarity with the Korean Women; a Japan-Korea Friendship delegation led by High P riest of Saifukuji-Temple Ekan Ikeguchi who is member of the Japanese Preparatory Committee; a delegation of the Korean Friendship Association Preparatory Committee led by its Chairman Alejandro Cao de Benos who is chairman of KFA headquartered in Spain; Rilo Vitervo, prefect of Bilovan, Bolivar Province; a delegation of the Ecuadorian National Preparatory Committee led by Daniel Alvarez Celi, chairman of the Ecuadorian Committee for Supporting Korea's Independent and Peaceful Reunification and vice-chairman of the American Regional Preparatory Committee; a delegation of the Pakistani Preparatory Committee led by its Secretary General Zabed Ansari who is secretary general of the Asia-Pacific Regional Preparatory Committee and secretary general of the Karachi Branch of the Pakistan-Korea Friendship Association; Guy Dupre, secretary general of the International Liaison Committee for Reunification and Peace in Korea and delegate president of the France-Korea Friendship Associat ion who is co-chairman of the Int'l Preparatory Committee, and his party; Pekka Kotkasaari, member of the Finland-Korea Society; a delegation of the Philippines Preparatory Committee led by its Honorary Chairman Rafael Mariano, who is member of the House of Representatives; Fernando Sanchez, chairman of the Colombia-Korea Friendship Association; Juan Jose Leon Vega, chairman of the Cuban Preparatory Committee and first vice-chairman of the Cuban Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification, and his party; a delegation of the Turkey-Korea Friendship Association led by its member Nazim Topcu; a delegation of the Polish Preparatory Committee led by its Vice-Chairman Jacek Poniewierski, first vice-chairman of the C.C., Poland-Korea Association; a delegation of the Peru Preparatory Committee led by its Chairman Tani Baler Lopera who is international secretary of the C.C., Communist Party of Peru "Red Motherland" and chairman of the Peruvian Committee for Supporting the Independ ent and Peaceful Reunification of Korea; Kosima Weber Liu, executive director of the Environmental Education Media Project; Socorro Gomes, president of the World Peace Council; Vidyasekera Ariyadasa, coordinator of the Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organization; and Manik Mukherjee, general secretary of the International Anti-Imperialism Coordinating Committee.