GFTUK Sends Affirmative Reply to S. Korean Trade Unions' Proposal for Football Games

Pyongyang, May 6 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea sent a letter to the Federation of Trade Unions of south Korea and the south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions Thursday in response to the proposal made by these organizations in their May Day joint statement to hold football games of the workers of the north and the south for reunification in Seoul on August 15. The letter reads: We extend warm compatriotic greetings to your organizations making devoted efforts to put spurs to the national reconciliation and unity and achieve independent reunification. We fully support the proposal for holding the games in Seoul on August 15 as your organizations had already promised it to the fellow countrymen and setting up a committee for promoting the games. We also propose holding a working contact of the three organizations of the north and the south in China in the latter half of May or in any place at any time you deem convenient so as to discuss all the issues concerning the successful holding of the August 15 north-south workers' football games and the formation of the joint promotion committee. The successful holding of the football games in Seoul on upcoming August 15 in the wake of the similar games in Pyongyang in October last year would mark a meaningful occasion of instilling confidence and optimism about peace and reunification into all the Koreans and dynamically arousing all of them to the movement for national reconciliation, unity, peace and reunification. We look forward to your affirmative reply. -0-