Pyongyang, February 18 (KCNA) -- The first meeting of "For Freedom of Nations", a forum of supporters for the struggle against modern neocolonialism, was held in Russia from Feb. 15 to 17.

Present there were a delegation of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and other 60-odd party delegations from 47 countries and foreign diplomatic envoys in Moscow.

A congratulatory message from President Vladimir Putin was read out and speeches were made by heads of party delegations from different countries.

Kim Su Gil, alternate member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK and chief secretary of the Pyongyang Municipal Party Committee, who is heading the WPK delegation, said in his speech that the desire of the peoples of all the countries to build up their own strength and develop in their own way is getting stronger day by day and, accordingly, the world's multipolarization became an irresistible trend of the times. He went on:

The U.S. and the West, very fearful of their waning dominant position, are clinging to the modern-day neocolonialist policy to maintain political and military subjugation and economic infiltration by inciting inter-state, inter-national and inter-religious confrontations and distrust and causing bloodshed in different parts of the world. Thus, the structure of a "new Cold War" has been fixed on a global scale and proxy wars broke out in Ukraine and the Middle East, more badly plaguing the international security environment.

The U.S. and its vassal forces' confrontation hysteria and military provocations have reached the zenith on the Korean peninsula.

Under the outstanding guidance of Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the DPRK, the Workers' Party of Korea and the Korean people are now achieving fresh victory in the struggle to make the overall development and prosperity of the state, resolutely smashing the anti-DPRK moves of the U.S. and its followers.

We will never tolerate the U.S. arrogant infringement upon sovereignty, consistently holding fast to independence against imperialism as the first state policy in the future, too, and will strive to defend justice and peace and establish a new international order while strengthening unity and solidarity with all the countries and political parties aspiring after independence.

He extended the warmest militant respect and full support to the fraternal Russian people and service members who turned out in the heroic struggle to firmly defend the sovereign rights, development and interests of the country against the hegemonic policy of the U.S. and Western group.

He firmly reaffirmed that the WPK would always fight shoulder to shoulder with all the progressive political parties of the world in the struggle for opposing the tyranny and arbitrary practices of the imperialists and building an independent new world.

The meeting adopted a final statement calling for dynamically waging a joint action and struggle against the modern neocolonialist moves of the dominationist forces. -0-