Pyongyang, August 11 (KCNA) -- Foreign guests came here Friday to attend the Fifth International Festival in Praise of the Great Persons of Mt Paektu.

They include Victor Petrov, chairman of the Russian Association for Friendship and Cultural Cooperation with the DPRK who is co-chairman of the International Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu, and his party; Helmi El Hadidi, chairman of the Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organization who is co-chairman of the International Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu; Javed Ansari, secretary general of the Karachi branch of the Pakistan-Korea Friendship Association who is secretary general of the Pakistani National Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu; Suneet Chopra, secretary general of the All India Indo-Korean Friendship Association who is secretary general of the Indian National Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu; a delegation of the Mongolian Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu led by Chairman J. Lomvo; Tin Tun, director of Myanmar Medical Research Institute who is chairman of the Myanmar Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu; Vitali Revedev, chairman of the preparatory committee of the Russian Group for Solidarity with the DPRK for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu, and his party; a delegation of the British Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu headed by Chairman Dermot Hudson; Vasile Lacatus, secretary general of the Romania-Korea Friendship Association who is co-chairman of the Romanian National Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu; a delegation of the Bulgarian Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu led by Maya Boneva; a delegation of the Belgium Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu led by Chairman Jozef Bossuyt; Jon Arni Halldorsson, general secretary of the Iceland-DPRK Friendship and Cultural Society who is chairman of the Iceland Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu; Jozef Servista, deputy general secretary of the C.C., Czechoslovak Communist Party who is vice-chairman of the Czech Republic Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu; a delegation of the Luxembourg Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu led by Secretary General Charles Doerner; Adamos Katsantonis, chairman of the Cyprus-Korea Cultural and Friendship Association who is chairman of the Cyprus Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu, and his party; a delegation of the Ecuadorian Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu led by Vice-Chairman Julio Ballesteros Espin; Noel Steeve, chairman of the Haiti-Korea Cultural Association who is chairman of the Haiti Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu; Rosanita Campos, vice-president of the Party for Free Motherland of Brazil who is representative of the Brazilian Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu; and Abdoulaye Diallo, chairman of the Guinean Society for the Study of the Juche Literary Idea who is vice-chairman of the Guinean Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu.

Also arriving were Damian Ogbonna, national chairman of the People's Progressive Party of Nigeria who is co-chairman of the International Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu, and his party; Cristian Pivetta, chairman of the Italian Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu; and Oliver Jonischkeit, representative of the Austrian Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu. -0-