They laid floral baskets and bouquets before portraits of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il and full-length pictures of the President and the leader standing together before paying tribute to them.

They included the first secretary and the secretary of the Khabarovsk Territory Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the first vice-chairman of the Khabarovsk Territory Legislative Assembly, the director of the International Relations Department of the Khabarovsk City Administration, members of the "United Russia" Party, a minister of state of Cambodia, the chairman of the Supreme Council of the Socialist Party of Romania, the chairman of the Romanian Socialist Union, the president of the Syrian Trade Unions Federation, the regional advisor of the People's Action Party of Singapore, the chairman of the Malaysian Preparatory Committee for Commemorating the 70th Birth Anniversary of Leader Kim Jong Il, the chairman of the Youth Organization of the Malaysian Chinese Association and the director- general of the International Institute of the Juche Idea.