Pyongyang, February 25 (KCNA) -- Foreign personages paid congratulatory visits to the DPRK missions in their countries on the occasion of the 83rd birth anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il.

Personages of political parties, organizations and institutions in different countries, including the Khabarovsk Territorial Branch Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the China World Peace Foundation, the Beijing Chao Ya International Cultural Exchange Center in China, the Pakistan-Korea Friendship and Solidarity Committee, the Communist Party and the Anti-imperialist Forum of Germany and the Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea, laid floral baskets and bouquets before the portraits of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il and art pieces depicting them standing together and paid tribute to them.

Meanwhile, personages of the Committee for External Affairs of the C.C., People's Revolutionary Party, the C.C., People's Revolutionary Youth Union, the C.C., Women's Union and the Veterans Federation of Laos, the Laos-Korea Friendship Association and the People's Party, the National Party, the Awami National Party, the Trade Union Federation and the Taekwon-Do Federation of Pakistan sent floral baskets and bouquets to the DPRK missions on the occasion of the significant February holiday. -0-