He laid a bouquet before a full-length painting portraying President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il before paying tribute to them.

He said:

Kim Jong Il consistently regarded independence, peace and friendship as a fundamental idea of external activities of the DPRK and paid deep attention to building an independent new world.

He conducted energetic external activities to strengthen the anti-imperialist independent forces.

I pay high tribute to Kim Jong Il, honorary president of the Socialist Party of Benin, with deep reverence and best wishes for his immortality.

The WPK and the Korean people wisely led by the dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un will surely win a victory in their just struggle for defending the sovereignty of the country and building a thriving socialist nation.