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Kim Jong Il's Birthday Celebrated in Foreign Countries
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- Floral baskets were sent to the DPRK missions in different countries between Feb. 12 to 16 to celebrate the birthday of General Secretary Kim Jong Il.

They included the Commission for External Affairs of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics and Public Administration, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, the Farmers Union, the Ho Chi Minh Museum, the Diplomatic Corp Service Department, the Thang Long Corporation, the Viettel Group of Viet Nam, the Vietnam-DPRK Friendship Association, the Vietnam-DPRK Friendship Club and the Vietnam-DPRK Friendship Kindergarten, the Organization Commission of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and the Ministry of Information and Culture of Laos, the Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics of Iran, the Staff of the General Command of Armed Forces of Iran, the Iranian Workers' House, the International Taekwon-Do Association in Iran and the Judo Federation of Iran, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Council for the Promotion of International Commerce and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Myanmar, the Myanmar Asia World Co. Ltd. and embassies of different countries in Myanmar, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the United Malays National Organization of Malaysia, the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), the Malaysian People's Movement, the Yang Tzi Cruise & Tour SDN. BHD. the Dickson Wong SDN.BHD., the M.K.P. Company, the Johnson Nicholson Company, the Guinean People's Assembly, the Chinese embassy in Berne, the Government of Geneva Canton of Switzerland, the People's Front of Workers, Peasants and Students of Peru, the Peruvian preparatory committee for commemorating the centenary of birth of President Kim Il Sung, the American regional preparatory committee for commemorating the centenary of birth of President Kim Il Sung, the Syrian vice-presidents, the deputy secretary and the director of the Organizational Department of the Regional Leadership of the Syria's Baath Arab Socialist Party, the Minister of Defence of Syria, the chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Syria, the president of the Syrian Trade Unions Federation and the chairman of the General Union of Syrian Peasants, the vice-prime minister and minister of Defence, the minister of Health, the mayor of Vientiane City and the secretary general of the Ministry of Public Security of Laos and the secretary of the General People's Committee of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.

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