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World Conference Opens in Pyongyang

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

    Pyongyang, August 13 (KCNA) -- The World Conference in Support of the Independent and Peaceful Reunification of Korea opened in Pyongyang with splendor Saturday on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Korea. The conference was co-sponsored by the International Liaison Committee for Reunification and Peace in Korea (CILRECO), the Korean Committee for Solidarity with the World People and foreign organizations for friendship and solidarity with the Korean people.
    It will discuss the tasks and ways for realizing the independent and peaceful reunification of Korea by checking and frustrating the moves of the U.S. and the anti-reunification forces and boosting the solidarity of the world progressive people. Attending the conference are delegations and delegates of international democratic organizations and organizations for peace against war including CILRECO, the World Peace Council, the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, the Women's International Democratic Federation and the International Action Centre and delegations and delegates of the regional and national friendship and solidarity organizations in Asia, Europe, Africa, America and Oceania.
    President of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers Jitendra Sharma made an opening address.
    Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, in his congratulatory speech extended warm congratulations to all those participating in the conference to voice invariable support and solidarity for the Korean people in their just cause for the independent and peaceful reunification of the country. He said that the Korean people would always join efforts with the world progressive people in the struggle to achieve the independent and peaceful reunification of the country and build an independent, new world.
    Alberto Moreno, general secretary of the New Left Movement of Peru, D. Chahilgan, president of the Mongolian Federation of Peace and Friendship Organizations, and Kamal Hyder, vice-president of the World Peace Council and general secretary of the Bangladesh Peace Council in their congratulatory speeches wished the conference success, noting that it would provide an occasion of helping put an end to the U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK and achieve the independent and peaceful reunification of Korea.
    Guy Dupre, secretary general of CILRECO, made a keynote report which was followed by a supplementary report by Mun Jae Chol, chairman of the Korean Committee for Solidarity with the World People.
    The opening ceremony was followed by a plenary meeting.
    The floor was taken by Robert Sharvaeng, secretary general of the International Commission of Jurists for Supporting the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration who is honorary president of CILRECO, Mohammed Arif, general secretary of the British Afro-Asian Solidarity Organization, Alejandro Rosales Sanchez, chairman of the Mexican Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification, and others. To replace the armistice system with a peace one on the Korean Peninsula is one of the basic issues for the peaceful settlement of the Korean issue, they said, urging the U.S. to pay due attentions to the just call of the DPRK on establishing the peace system and respond to it.
    The conference will continue.