Pyongyang, September 17 (KCNA) -- Foreign personages paid congratulatory visits to the DPRK missions in their countries on the occasion of the 76th founding anniversary of the DPRK.

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 Khabarovsk Territorial Committee of the Lenin Young Communist League of the Russian Federation, the Belarus Association of Friends of Korean People Named after Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, the Communist Workers' Party of Belarus and the Belarus Association for the Study of Juche Idea, laid floral baskets and bouquets before the portraits of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il and art pieces depicting them and paid tribute to them.

The Chamberlain secretary as a special envoy of the Egyptian president and the general secretary of the South African Communist Party and the first deputy secretary of its Mfumalanga Provincial Committee visited DPRK missions.

Meanwhile, the Lao Federation of Trade Unions and the Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Farmers Union, the Lang Son Provincial People's Committee, the Academy of Social Sciences of Vietnam and the Vietnam-DPRK Friendship Association sent floral baskets to the DPRK missions on the occasion of the founding anniversary of the DPRK. -0-