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Reception Given in Honor of Chinese Delegation

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, February 20 (KCNA) -- A reception was given at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on Saturday in honor of the visiting delegation of the International Liaison Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Present on invitation were members of the delegation led by Wang Jiarui, head of the department, and Chinese Ambassador to the DPRK Wu Donghe and staff members of the embassy here.
    On hand were Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, Kim Ki Nam, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Pak Kyong Son, vice department director of the WPK Central Committee, Kim Hyong Jun, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, and officials concerned.
    Kim Ki Nam in an address referred to great achievements the Chinese people have made in their efforts to consolidate the party and build socialism with Chinese characteristics under the guidance of the Communist Party of China led by General Secretary Hu Jintao.
    He expressed thanks to the Chinese party and government for having expressed invariable support and solidarity with the Korean people in their efforts to build a great prosperous powerful socialist nation and achieve the cause of the country's reunification.
    It is common desire of the two peoples and consistent stand of the WPK to continue to consolidate and develop the DPRK-China friendship, he said, manifesting the resolution to work hard to boost the friendship true to the intention of leader Kim Jong Il.
    Wang Jiarui in his reply said that the delegation visited the DPRK on the occasion of the birthday of General Secretary Kim Jong Il and on the occasion of the Lunar New Year's Day, the holiday common to the two peoples.
    The new collective leadership of China led by General Secretary Hu Jintao sets store by the traditional Sino-Korean friendship and set it forth as its important policy to develop the bilateral friendly relations, he said.
    This year is a significant year for both parties and peoples, he said, adding that the Chinese people would exert positive efforts together with the Korean people to boost the bilateral friendly and cooperative relations in the spirit of "Inheriting the tradition, facing up to the future, building good-neighborly friendship and strengthening cooperation."