Present there were figures of various circles and masses in the relevant countries.

G.P. Kulikov, secretary of the Maritime Territorial Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, said in his speech that Kim Il Sung, eternal President of the DPRK, was a great leader who devoted his whole life to the prosperity of the country and its independent reunification.

Mincho Minchev, chairman of the Bulgarian Communists' Party, Atanas Ivanov, honorary chairman of the Bulgarian Communists Union, and Simeon Ignatov, chairman of the Bulgaria-Korea Friendship Association, praised Kim Il Sung as a distinguished statesman in the 20th century.

They stressed that he is always alive in the hearts of the Korean and world progressive people for the exploits he performed on behalf of the country and its people and the human cause of independence.

Oskar Molleby, chief of the Swedish Group for the Study of the Juche Idea, praised the immortal revolutionary career and exploits of the President, outstanding thinker and theoretician and iron-willed commander.

Messages of greetings to supreme leader Kim Jong Un were adopted at the seminars held in Bulgaria and Sweden.