DPRK Embassy in Moscow Hosts Reception
Pyongyang, October 19 (KCNA) -- The DPRK embassy in Moscow hosted a reception on Oct. 13 to mark the 78th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation.
Present there on invitation were Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of Russia Alexandr Kozlov who is chairman of the Russian side to the Russia-DPRK Inter-governmental Committee for Cooperation in Trade, Economy, Science and Technology and personages of government, parliament, political parties and organizations including the Russian Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of the Interior, the Federation Council, the State Duma, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the Russian Association for Friendship and Cultural Cooperation with the DPRK.
Present there were Sin Hong Chol, DPRK ambassador to Russia, and his embassy members.
Speeches were made at the reception.
The DPRK ambassador said that the DPRK-Russia friendly relations are now entering an unprecedented phase of upsurge thanks to the most sincere comradely relations between Comrade
He stressed that it is the steadfast policy of the DPRK government to attach importance to the DPRK-Russia relations and steadily expand and develop the joint work.
The minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of Russia said that the two countries commemorate the day when the diplomatic relations were established as the day when multilateral and reciprocal cooperation between the two equality-based sovereign states began and that the bilateral relations have been verified over the years.
A vice minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia said that the two countries have helped each other while carrying forward the tradition of friendship, good neighborliness and mutual support at the most responsible and historic moments over the past decades, adding that the most clear proof of the unity is that DPRK soldiers participated in the operations for liberating Kursk Region.
A vice minister of Defense said that the comprehensive strategic partnership between Russia and the DPRK is based on the fundamental interests of each other, the common view on the international situation and the world order and mutual trust and good-neighborliness of high level.
Meanwhile, the DPRK missions in Vladivostok and Khabarovsk of Russia hosted receptions on October 13 and 16 on the same occasion. -0-