Pyongyang, February 16 (KCNA) -- Foreign organizations and personages sent floral baskets to the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill here on the occasion of the 83rd birth anniversary of Kim Jong Il.

They included the Association for Praying for Immortality of the Palace of the Sun in Dandong City of China under the Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il Foundation, the Helongnanmao Construction Development Co., Ltd. in Jilin Province, Cui Tongjun and Wang Shuli, members of the Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il Foundation, the deputy general director for Tourism of the Presidential Office of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, the advisor to the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Forest, Fishery and Environment of Equatorial Guinea and Zhang Baoqing, general manager of the China Dandong Lianghao Science and Technology Development Co. Ltd.

The floral baskets were placed at the statues of the great leaders on February 15.

Cui Tongwen, chief director of the Wanjing Trade Co. Ltd. in Dandong of China, laid a floral basket at the statues on the same day. -0-