Statement of Solidarity of Communist and Workers' Parties in Support of the Just Cause of the Workers' Party of Korea and the Korean People for an Independent and Peaceful Reunification of Korea and for Peace and Security on the Korean Peninsula

We, participants in the 20th International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties held in Athens, Greece on November 23-25, 2018 express full support for and solidarity with the just cause of the Workers' Party of Korea and the Korean people for realizing an independent and peaceful reunification of Korea and maintaining peace and security on the Korean peninsula.

We welcome the new phase of peace and reconciliation being opened up on the" Korean peninsula thanks to the proactive efforts of the Workers' Party of Korea and the Korean people, aimed at improving the inter-Korean relations, establishing a permanent peace regime on the Korean peninsula and terminating the U.S. hostile policy toward the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

The just cause of the Workers' Party of Korea and the Korean people to defend the peace and security of the Korean peninsula and build a powerful socialist country constitutes an active contribution to the struggle of Communist and Workers' Parties to secure international justice and peace and victoriously advance the cause of socialism on the global scale.

We resolutely oppose and reject the imperialists' interference in the internal affairs of the Korean nation and their unjust policy of sanctions and pressure against the DPRK,and strongly demand that the U.S. withdraw its policy ofhostility and military threats against the DPRK once and for all.

We hope that the international community will respond positively to the measures taken in good faith by the DPRK toward the ease of tension and reconciliation on the Korean peninsula and call upon all Communist and Workers' Parties and progressive organizations of the world to intensify the international solidarity movement for the just cause of theWorkers' Party of Korea and the Korean people.

November 25, 2018 Athens, Greece

Initiated by the Hungarian Workers’ Party

1. Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism
2. Communist Party of Argentina
3. Communist Party of Australia
4. Party of Labour of Austria
5. Communist Party of Azerbaijan
6. Communist Party of Bangladesh
7. Communist Party of Belarus
8. CP of Belgium
9. Brazilian Communist Party
10. Communist Party of Britain
11. New Communist Party of Britain
12. Communist Party of Bulgaria
13. Party of the Bulgarian Communists
14. Communist Party of Canada
15. Socialist Workers' Party of Croatia
16. Communist Party of Cuba
17. AKEL, Cyprus
18. Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
19. Communist Party in Denmark
20. Communist Party of Denmark
21. Communist Party of Ecuador
22. Communist Party of Estonia
23. Communist Party of Macedonia
24. German Communist Party
25. Unified Communist Party of Georgia
26. Hungarian Workers' Party
27. Communist Party of India
28. The Worker's Party of Ireland
29. Communist Party of Israel
30. Communist Party (Italy)
31. Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan
32. Workers' Party of Korea
33. Party of the Communists of Kyrgyzstan
34. Socialist Party of Latvia
35. Lebanese Communist Party
36. Socialist Party, Lithuania
37. Communist Party of Luxembourg
38. Communist Party of Malta
39. Communist Party of Mexico
40. New Communist Party of Netherlands
41. Communist Party of Norway
42. Communist Party of Pakistan
43. Palestinian Communist Party
44. Palestinian People's Party
45. Paraguayan Communist Party
46. Portuguese Communist Party
47. Romanian Socialist Party
48. Communist Party of Soviet Union
49. Russian Communist Workers' Party ‐ Communist Party of Soviet Union (RCWP‐CPSU)
50. Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF)
51. UCP-CPSU
52. Communists of Serbia
53. New Communist Party of Yugoslavia
54. Communist Party of Slovakia
55. South African Communist Party
56. Communist Party of The Peoples of Spain
57. Communist Party of The Peoples of Spain
58. Communist Party of Sri Lanka                             
59. Communist Party of Swaziland
60. Communist Party of Turkey
61. Communist Party of Ukraine
62. Union of Communists of Ukraine
63. Communist Party USA
64. Communist Party of Venezuela