Pyongyang Declaration
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The Pyongyang Declaration, officially titled Let Us Defend and Advance the Cause of Socialism, was a statement signed by a number of political parties on 20 April 1992 that calls for the unity of the socialist camp and a vow to safeguard socialism. Representatives of 70 communist and socialist parties from 51 countries arrived in Pyongyang, North Korea, to celebrate Kim Il Sung's 80th birthday. While there, the delegates had many bilateral and multilateral contacts with each other and decided to issue a declaration reiterating their commitment to socialism in spite of the collapse of the USSR and a number of other communist regimes in recent years. On 20 April, the declaration was signed by delegates of 69 parties, including 48 party leaders.
The Pyongyang Declaration, officially titled Let Us Defend and Advance the Cause of Socialism, was a statement signed by a number of political parties on 20 April 1992 that calls for the unity of the socialist camp and a vow to safeguard socialism. Representatives of 70 communist and socialist parties from 51 countries arrived in Pyongyang, North Korea, to celebrate Kim Il Sung's 80th birthday. While there, the delegates had many bilateral and multilateral contacts with each other and decided to issue a declaration reiterating their commitment to socialism in spite of the collapse of the USSR and a number of other communist regimes in recent years. On 20 April, the declaration was signed by delegates of 69 parties, including 48 party leaders. ==Signatories== The Declaration was originally signed on 20 April 1992 by 69 parties. The Mongolian People's Party later withdrew from the declaration, the only party to do so. According to Korean Central News Agency, "Six months later, the number of signatories reached more than 140. "They numbered over 170 one year later". At the time of the ten-year anniversary in 2002 there were 258 signatories. In 2012 there were 280. The number of signatories reached 300 in 2017. North Korea often cites these numbers for propaganda purposes. ===Works cited=== Full text of the 'Pyongyang Declaration' at Proletarian On Line website, Communist Party of Great Britain ( Marxist Leninist), 18 June 2007. Accessed March 2011
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