Present there on invitation were Member of the Political Bureau and Secretary Kang Sok Ju, Vice Department Director Pak Kun Gwang and other officials of the WPK Central Committee.

Staff members of the embassy were on hand.

German Hermin Ferras Alvarez in his speech said that the Cuban people are highly estimating the successes achieved by the Korean people under the leadership of Marshal Kim Jong Un.

The Korean people are the closest comrades-in-arms and brothers of the Cuban people fighting against the U.S. imperialists, common enemy, in the same trench, he stressed, adding:

Cuba will always stand by the Korean comrades in the struggle for the sovereignty of the country and its reunification and socialist construction.

He hoped the DPRK would successfully attain all its goals under the guidance of the WPK.

Cuba will always stand with Korean comrades struggling for the sovereignty and reunification of the country and socialist construction.

Kang Sok Ju noted that Cuban people significantly celebrated the founding anniversary of the WPK together with the Korean people every year, an expression of stand of the Cuban party and government based on obligation of comradeship.

Kim Jong Un is paying particular attention to the development of the friendly and cooperative relations between the two parties and countries provided by President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il together with the Cuban leaders, he said, adding:

The party, government and people of Cuba have extended invariable support and encouragement to the WPK and the Korean people in their revolutionary cause of building a thriving nation and achieving the independent reunification of the country.

The WPK would always win victories only as the great party of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism as it is led by Kim Jong Un.