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Korean Central News Agency Extracts. Gift to Kim Jong Il from Communist Party Of India Pyongyang, April 15 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il was presented with a gift by H. S. Surjeet, general secretary of the central committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on the occasion of the 90th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung. THe gift was handed to an official concerned by Suneet Chopra, member of the c.c., the Communist Party of India (marxist) who is a delegate of the party on a visit to the DPRK. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Greetings to Lao prime minister Pyongyang, April 15 (KCNA) -- Premier Hong Song Nam of the DPRK cabinet sent a message of greetings to his Lao counterpart Boungnang Vorachit.. The message extended warm congratulations to him upon his reappointment as prime minister of the government of Laos. In the belief that the traditional relations of friendship and cooperation between the two countries would continue to consolidate and develop in the future, too, the message sincerely wished him great success in his responsible work for the modernization and industrialization of the country. DPRK foreign minister Paek Nam Sun also sent a message of greetings to Somsavath Lengsavath upon his reappointment as deputy prime minister and foreign minister of Laos. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Reception given by WPK Central Committee Pyongyang, April 15 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea gave a reception at the People's Palace of Culture yesterday in honor of the visiting political party delegations and delegates of different countries on the occasion of the 90th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung. Choe Thae Bok, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, in a speech said that Kim Il Sung who embarked upon the road of revolution in his early years founded the immortal Juche idea to clearly indicate the way of the struggle of the popular masses for independence and hewed out the era of independence through his great revolutionary practice. The WPK will in the future, too, further strengthen friendship and unity with all the progressive political parties of the world aspiring after independence and socialism against imperialism and make positive contributions to the common cause for the building of a new, independent and just world in the idea of independence, friendship and peace, he added. Then, followed speeches of Muhammad Zouher Mashariqa, vice-president of Syria and member of the national and regional leadership of the Baath Arab Socialist Party of Syria who is heading the delegation of the Baath Arab Socialist Party and the National Progressive Front of Syria, in a speech said that the friendly and cooperative relations between Syria and the DPRK provided by Hafez Al Assad and Kim Il Sung will further strengthen and develop by Bashar Al Assad and leader Kim Jong Il. Jorgen Petersen, chairman of the Danish Communist Party (M-L) who is heading a delegation of the party, in a speech said that Kim Il Sung devoted his all to the accomplishment of the human cause of independence and the socialist cause till the last moments of his life as a genuine internationalist. A art performance was given at the reception. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Floral basket to Kim Jong Il from Mongolian President Pyongyang, April 15 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il received a floral basket from Mongolian President Natsagiin Bagabandi on the occasion of the 90th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung. The basket was handed to an official concerned by Janchivdorjyn Lombo, Mongolian Ambassador to the DPRK. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kim Jong Il sends educational aid fund and stipends to children of Koreans in Japan Pyongyang, April 15 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il sent educational aid fund and stipends worth 262,600,000 yen in the Japanese currency for the development of the democratic national education of the General Association of Korean residents in Japan. The educational aid fund and stipends sent by President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in the 148th installment for the children of Koreans in Japan totaled 44,866,563,000 yen in the Japanese currency. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Senior DPRK officials meet Russian guests Pyongyang, April 15 (KCNA) -- Premier of the DPRK cabinet Hong Song Nam met and had a friendly talk with Vladimir Anatoliyevich Yakovlev, mayor of st. Petersburg of Russia, and his party who paid a courtesy call on him at the Mansudae Assembly Hall yesterday. Present there were Ri Kwang Gun, minister of Foreign Trade, Ryang Man Gil, chairman of the Pyongyang City People's Committee, Kung Sok Ung, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, officials concerned and Russian ambassador to the DPRK Andrei Gennadievich Karlov. Meanwhile, Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, met and had a friendly talk with Anatoly Rakhayev, vice-minister of Cultural of Russia who is a Russian government culture delegate to the 20th April Spring Friendship Art Festival at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on the same day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kim Yong Nam meets Iranian delegation Pyongyang, April 15 (KCNA) -- President Kim Yong Nam of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK met and had a friendly talk with a delegation of the Iran-Korea Friendship Association led by Mohammad Fruzandeh, chairman of the Association and chairman of the Proletarian and Islamic Revolutionary Wounded Organization, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall yesterday. Present there were Ri Won Il, minister of labour who is also chairman of the Korea-iran Friendship Association, Choe Jong Hwan, vice-chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, and Jalaleddin Namini Mianji, Iranian ambassador to Korea. The head of the delegation said that President Kim Il Sung remains alive in the hearts of humankind. He was deeply moved to see the achievements made by the Korean people in the drive to defend the sovereignty of the country, he added. He wished the Korean people greater success in the building of a powerful nation, guided by Kim Jong Il. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Reception given in honour of Russian guests Pyongyang, April 15 (KCNA) -- The DPRK government hosted a reception at the Mansudae Assembly Hall yesterday in honor of the visiting mayor of st. Petersburg of Russia and his party. Present on invitation were mayor V. A. Yakovlev and his party and Russian ambassador to the DPRK Andrei Gennadievich Karlov and embassy officials. Hong Song Nam, premier of the DPRK cabinet, and officials concerned were on hand. Ryang Man Gil, chairman of the Pyongyang City People's Committee, in a speech said that the DPRK-Russia relations have entered a stage of the overall development under the close relations and deep care of the top leaders of the two countries. The DPRK, attaching importance to the relations with Russia with a long history and excellent traditions of cooperation, will in the future make positive efforts to multilaterally develop in depth the bilateral friendly and cooperative relations, he added. He sincerely wished that everything will continue going well in Russia, a neighboring country of the DPRK, and st. Petersburg will achieve greater success in its work in particular. The mayor, speaking at the reception, said that the meetings of Russian President Vladimir Putin and chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission Kim Jong Il, the top leaders of the two countries, laid a solid foundation for the strengthening and development of the Russia-DPRK relations and opened the wide prospect for the mutual visits and contacts of delegations of various levels. Through the current visit we will strive to increase cooperation in all fields including foreign trade and economy with Korean partners, he said, warmly congratulating the Korean friends on the Day of the Sun. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Greetings to Lao President Pyongyang, April 15 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, sent a congratulatory message to Khamtay Siphandone on April 12 on his election as Lao President at the first session of the fifth Lao People's National Assembly. Kim, in the message, expressed belief that the traditional friendly and cooperative ties between the two countries would continue to strengthen and develop in the common interests of the two peoples and the socialist cause and sincerely wished him good health and happiness and greater success in his work for the prosperity of the country. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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