They include Victor Petrov, chairman of the Russian Association for Friendship and Cultural Cooperation with the DPRK who is co-chairman of the International Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu, and his party; Helmi El Hadidi, chairman of the Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organization who is co-chairman of the International Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu; Javed Ansari, secretary general of the Karachi branch of the Pakistan-Korea Friendship Association who is secretary general of the Pakistani National Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu; Suneet Chopra, secretary general of the All India Indo-Korean Friendship Association who is secretary general of the Indian National Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu; a delegation of the Mongolian Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu led by Chairman J. Lomvo; Tin Tun, director of Myanmar Medical Research Institute who is chairman of the Myanmar Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu; Vitali Revedev, chairman of the preparatory committee of the Russian Group for Solidarity with the DPRK for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu, and his party; a delegation of the British Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu headed by Chairman Dermot Hudson; Vasile Lacatus, secretary general of the Romania-Korea Friendship Association who is co-chairman of the Romanian National Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu; a delegation of the Bulgarian Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu led by Maya Boneva; a delegation of the Belgium Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu led by Chairman Jozef Bossuyt; Jon Arni Halldorsson, general secretary of the Iceland-DPRK Friendship and Cultural Society who is chairman of the Iceland Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu; Jozef Servista, deputy general secretary of the C.C., Czechoslovak Communist Party who is vice-chairman of the Czech Republic Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu; a delegation of the Luxembourg Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu led by Secretary General Charles Doerner; Adamos Katsantonis, chairman of the Cyprus-Korea Cultural and Friendship Association who is chairman of the Cyprus Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu, and his party; a delegation of the Ecuadorian Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu led by Vice-Chairman Julio Ballesteros Espin; Noel Steeve, chairman of the Haiti-Korea Cultural Association who is chairman of the Haiti Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu; Rosanita Campos, vice-president of the Party for Free Motherland of Brazil who is representative of the Brazilian Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu; and Abdoulaye Diallo, chairman of the Guinean Society for the Study of the Juche Literary Idea who is vice-chairman of the Guinean Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu.

Also arriving were Damian Ogbonna, national chairman of the People's Progressive Party of Nigeria who is co-chairman of the International Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu, and his party; Cristian Pivetta, chairman of the Italian Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu; and Oliver Jonischkeit, representative of the Austrian Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu.