Pyongyang, September 17 (KCNA) -- Personages of various circles of different countries paid congratulatory visits to the DPRK missions in their countries on the occasion of the 77th founding anniversary of the DPRK.

The editor-in-chief of the organ of the People's Party of Cambodia and other personages of political parties, governments, organizations and institutions including the Communist Party of Germany, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Overseas Compatriots of Equatorial Guinea laid flower baskets before the portraits of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il and paid tribute to them.

The secretary general of the FUNCINPEC Party of Cambodia and the secretary of the Chamberlain of the Presidency of Egypt also paid congratulatory visits to the DPRK missions.

Meanwhile, flower baskets were sent to the DPRK missions by the Committee for External Affairs of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, the Laos-Korea Friendship Association, the president of the Central Committee of the Lao Federation of Trade Unions, the president of the Central Committee of the Lao Women's Union, the Lao vice-minister of Public Security and others on the occasion of the 77th founding anniversary of the DPRK.

The chairman of the Pakistani Organization for the Study of the Juche Idea and the general secretary of the Pakistani Branch of the Network Women's Rights Coordinating Body of the World March of Women sent a congratulatory flower basket in the joint name of them to the DPRK mission. -0-