Pyongyang, February 28 (KCNA) -- Foreign personages paid congratulatory visits to the DPRK missions in their countries on the occasion of the 84th birth anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il.

Personages of political parties, organizations and institutions in different countries including the People's Socialist Party of Mexico, the Mexico-Korea Solidarity Committee, the Ethiopian National Committee for the Study of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, the Addis Ababa Youth Association of Ethiopia and the Beijing Chao Ya International Cultural Exchange Center in China laid flower baskets and bouquets before the portraits of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il and the art pieces depicting them standing together and paid tribute to them.

Meanwhile the director-general of the International Institute of the Juche Idea paid a congratulatory visit to the DPRK mission and Chinese personages sent flower baskets to the DPRK mission on the occasion of the February holiday. -0-