The participants laid floral baskets and bouquets before the portraits of smiling President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and art pieces depicting them and paid tribute to them.

The chairman of the Brazilian committee for remembering leader Kim Jong Il praised his revolutionary life for the country's prosperity and people's happiness, saying that he left the great exploits guaranteeing the eternal foundation and rosy future of socialist Korea as the heritage.

The chairman of the Sweden-Korea Friendship Association said that Kim Jong Il defended the country's sovereignty, people's well-being and peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula with his Songun politics and aroused the Korean people to the struggle for building a thriving socialist nation and made great contributions to the cause of national reunification.

The secretary general of the Iceland-Korea Friendship and Cultural Society said that Kim Jong Il will always be alive in the hearts of all people as he performed the undying feats for the Korean revolution and the cause of human independence.

Messages to Marshal Kim Jong Un were adopted at the meetings held in Brazil, Germany and Sweden.