Present there were personages from the Communist Party, the Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, the Prensa Latina News Agency and other units of Cuba, the DPRK ambassador to Cuba and staff members of his embassy.

Speeches were made there.

A vice-minister of Foreign Affairs said that the relations between Cuba and the DPRK were forged by historic leaders Comrade Fidel Castro Ruz and Comrade Kim Il Sung, had been developed by Comrade Raul Castro Ruz and Comrade Kim Jong Il and are developing under the specialcare of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un and Comrade Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez, adding:

The imperialist reactionaries are resorting to more vicious moves to frustrate the accomplishment of the socialist cause in the two countries.

The Cuban government will resolutely oppose and reject any attempts to infringe the sovereignty of the DPRK and express unconditional support and solidarity to the cause of the Party, government and people of the DPRK in their efforts to build a thriving socialist country.

The Cuban Foreign Ministry will as ever value and boost friendly and cooperative relations with the DPRK, closely cooperate with each other and strengthen the ties in the international arenas.

The deputy head and concurrently coordinator of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba stressed that the traditional bonds of friendship between the two countries will invariably develop into the special comradely relations and disinterested relations despite any hardships.