They laid floral baskets and bouquets before the portraits of smiling President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il and art pieces depicting the peerlessly great men and paid tribute to them.

They included delegations of the Workers' Party of Mexico, the People's Socialist Party of Mexico, the Mexican Committee for the Study of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, the Mexican Friend Association for Memory of President Kim Il Sung and Leader Kim Jong Il, the Mexican Institute for the Study of the Juche Idea, the Mexico-Korea Friendship Association, a delegation of several political parties of Nigeria, the deputy director of the Political Bureau of the Cuban Ministry of Revolutionary Armed Forces and his party, the general secretary of the C.C., Nepal Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist), the chairman of the Nepal Journalist Association, the chairman of the Nepali Literary Forum for the Study of Songun Politics, the secretary general of the Bangladesh Jatiya Party, the president of the Bangladesh People's League, the general secretary of the C.C., Workers' Party of Bangladesh, the chairman of the Bangladesh-Korea Friendship and Solidarity Committee, the chairman of the Banglad
esh Institute of the Juche Idea, the vice-general secretary of the Islamic Coalition Party of Iran and his party, the director of the International Department of the Iranian Workers' House and his party, the vice-chairman of the FUNCINPEC Party of Cambodia and his party, the director of the Central Secretariat of the Pakistan People's Party and his party, the secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation who is also the head of the Russia－DPRK Friendship Parliamentary Group of the State Duma of Russia, the chairwoman of the Party for Peace and Unity of Russia, the chief of the Russian Group for Solidarity with the DPRK, personages of the State Academic Igor Moiseyev Dance Company of Russia, members of the Austrian preparatory committee for marking the Day of the Shining Star, the national chairman of the Federation of Students and Pupils of DR Congo and his party and members of the DR Congo preparatory committee for marking the Day of the Shining Star.

Meanwhile, the Union Solidarity and Development Party of Myanmar, the Veterans League of Laos, the Laos-Korea Friendship Association and the general secretary of the Guinean People's Assembly, the minister of Defence of Laos, the vice-prime minister and concurrently foreign minister of Laos, the president of the Lao Federation of Trade Unions of Laos and the president of the Central Committee of the Lao Women's Union sent floral baskets to the DPRK missions in their countries.