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Kim Jong Il Sends Reply Messages to Foreign Party and State Leaders
Pyongyang, May 17 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il sent messages to heads of party and state of different countries in reply to their messages on the birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung.

The replies went to Michel Suleiman, president of Lebanon, Bashar Al-Assad, regional secretary of the Baath Arab Socialist Party and president of Syria, Norodom Sihamoni, king of Cambodia, Asif Ali Zardari, president of Pakistan, Mwai Kibaki, president of Kenya, Joseph Kabila Kabange, president of Democratic Congo, and Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, president of Uganda.

He also sent a reply message to Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani, prime minister of Pakistan.

In the replies he expressed belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the DPRK and those countries would grow stronger in various fields and wished them successes in the work for peace, stability and prosperity of their countries.

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