Present at the event were Vishwanath, secretary general of the International Kim Il Sung Prize Council, secretary general of the International Kim Jong Il Prize Council and director general of the International Institute of the Juche Idea, and officials of the Asian Regional Institute of the Juche Idea, Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist), Indian Youth Group for the Study of Works of Comrade Kim Il Sung, Indian Society for the Study of Works of Kim Jong Il, All India Indo-Korean Friendship Association, All India Agricultural Workers' Union, Delhi Society for Study of the Juche Idea, the newspaper Indian and World Event and other regional organizations, and political parties, organizations and institutions of India.

Announced there was a decision of the International Kim Jong Il Prize Council. Detailed explanation was given about the institution of the prize, rules of its award and its diploma, gold medal and cup.

Speeches were made by Atle Ranjan, secretary of the National Council of the Communist Party of India; Suneet Chopra, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and secretary general of the All India Indo-Korean Friendship Association; and S. P. Pathak, chairman of the Indian Society for the Study of Works of Kim Jong Il.

General Secretary Kim Jong Il is alive in the hearts of the Korean people and the world progressives, the speakers said, adding he was the peerless statesman, iron-willed brilliant commander, benevolent father of the people and guardian of socialism.

It is the results of his outstanding leadership that the DPRK is displaying its might as a nuclear weapons state and a state which manufactures and launches satellites, they said, and went on:

It is of great historical significance that the International Kim Jong Il Prize was instituted reflecting the unanimous desire and aspiration of progressive humankind.

The institution of the prize will help further glorify the immortal feats of Kim Jong Il over the world down through generations.