Pyongyang, December 30 (KCNA) --The delegations and representatives of ministries, institutions and organizations of different countries and the United Nations organization paid condolatory visits to the DPRK missions in respective countries between Dec. 23 and Dec. 27 on the demise of leader Kim Jong Il.

Among them were delegations of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, the Ministry of Water Recourses and Weather and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of Cambodia, the Ministry of Health of Mozambique and the Mongolian Centre for the Study of Juche, representatives of the Foreign Ministry of Kuwait, the Foreign Ministry of Romania, the National Defence Commission of Federal Parliament of Austria and the Asia and Pacific Regional Office of UNESCO.

They presented wreaths, bouquets and flowers before portraits of Kim Jong Il and paid silent tribute to him.

The Austrian Federal Ministry of Europe and International Relations sent a condolatory note to the DPRK mission in Vienna on Dec. 27.