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Floral Baskets to DPRK Embassies in Various Countries
Pyongyang, February 21 (KCNA) -- On the occasion of the birthday of General Secretary
Kim Jong Il, the Commission for External Affairs of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Public Security, the Union of Friendship Organizations, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, the Women's Union, the People's Committee of Hai Duong Province, the Ho Chi Minh Museum of Vietnam, the Vietnam-DPRK Friendship Association, the Ministry of Information and Culture of Laos, the People's Party of Cambodia, the FUNCINPEC Party, the Khmer Democratic Party, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Secretariat of the Prime Minister, the Taekwon-Do Association of Cambodia, the Foreign Ministry of Myanmar, the youth organization of the Malaysia Chinese Association, the Kuwaiti preparatory committee for commemorating February 16, the Kuwait-DPRK Friendship Association, the Workers' Party, the People's Socialist Party, the Socialist Popular Party of Mexico, the Mexican Committee for the Study of Kimilsungism, the Mexican Institute for the Study of the Juche Idea, the Mexican Fellowship Institute to Honor the Memory of President Kim Il Sung, the Mexican Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification, the Mexico-Korea Friendship Association and the Chinese embassy in Switzerland sent floral baskets to the DPRK embassies in the relevant countries from Feb. 11 to 17.

Those who sent floral baskets to the DPRK embassies in their countries from Feb. 11 to 16 included the vice-prime minister and minister of Defence, the vice-prime minister and foreign minister of Laos, the secretary of the Central Committee of Lao People's Revolutionary Youth Union, the vice-minister of Industry and Commerce of Vietnam, the chairman of the Vietnam-Korea Friendship Parliamentary Group, the deputy general secretary and the regional deputy secretary of Syria's Baath Arab Socialist Party, the chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Syria, the president of the Syrian Trade Unions Federation, the chairwoman of the General Federation of the Syrian Women, the deputy prime minister and minister of Defense of Cambodia, the minister of Information, the minister of State and minister of Commerce of Cambodia, the vice-chairman of the National Democratic Party and the minister of International Cooperation of Egypt, the secretary of the General People's Committee and the national security advisor of Libya, the chairman of the Italian General Investment Group and other personages from all walks of life in various countries.

And the "International Kim Il Sung Fund" and companies of China sent floral baskets to the DPRK consulate general in Hong Kong on Feb. 10 and 14.

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