Floral baskets were laid before the portraits of smiling Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and full-length portraits of them standing together.

They were sent by the Committee for External Affairs of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP); the Malaysian Chinese Association; the vice-prime minister and foreign minister of Laos who is a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the LPRP and the chairman of the Committee for External Affairs of the party; the vice-foreign minister who is a member of the LPRP Central Committee and vice-chairman of the Committee for External Affairs of the party; the president of the People's Supreme Court of Laos who is a member of the LPRP Central Committee; the president of the Golden Trip Travel Service Co. Ltd., Hong Kong; and other parties and personages.

The president of the Socialist Party of Benin sent a bunch of flowers to the DPRK embassy in his country.