Invited there were Ri Su Yong, Politburo member and vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Vice Foreign Minister Choe Hui Chol and officials concerned.

Members of the Cuban party and state delegation led by Salvador Antonio Valdes Mesa, member of the Political Bureau of the C.C., Communist Party of Cuba, first vice-president of the Council of State and first vice-president of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba, and staff members of the Cuban embassy here were on hand.

Speeches were made at the reception.