Laid before the statues were a floral basket in the joint name of the Korean Friendship Association UK and the British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea, and floral baskets in the names of the Switzerland-Korea Committee, the Sweden-DPRK Cultural Exchange Association, the Mongolian Cultural and Research Center of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Milton Burbano Bohorquez, chairman of the Ecuadorian committee for remembering President Kim Il Sung, and Estuardo Martinez Perez, president of the General Kim Jong Il Peruvian Amicable Institute.