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Messages of Sympathy to DPRK from Foreign Countries

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, May 9 (KCNA) -- Messages of sympathy were sent to the DPRK government by the Ugandan government and to Pak Pong Ju, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, by Mongolian Prime Minister Nambariin Enkhbayar, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder as regards the train explosion at Ryongchon Railway Station in North Phyongan Province. DPRK Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun received messages of sympathy from Malaysian Foreign Minister Datuk Sri Syed Hamid Albar, Indonesian Foreign Minister Nur Hassan Wirayuda, Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Dy Nien, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passi, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic Cyril Svoboda, Polish Foreign Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, British Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Jack Straw, Peruvian Foreign Minister Manuel Rodriguez Quadros and Nicaraguan Acting Foreign Minister Sergio Blandon.
    The messages said that they heard the sad news that the tragic train accident at Ryongchon Railway Station claimed huge human and material losses and expressed deepest condolences and sympathy to the DPRK government, the Korean people and the bereaved families of the victims.
    The messages extended firm solidarity to the Korean people in their efforts to eradicate the aftermath of the disaster at an early date under the guidance of the Workers' Party of Korea and the DPRK government.
    Meanwhile, institutions concerned and public organizations in the DPRK received messages of sympathy from figures of the UN, the Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organization, the International Maritime Organization, the Communist Youth Union of Germany, the Laos-DPRK Friendship Association and the Democratic Congo-DPRK Friendship and Solidarity Association and other international organizations and foreign organizations.