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Reception Given to Commemorate Day of Sun

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

    Moscow, April 13 (KCNA) -- A reception was given at the DPRK embassy in Moscow on April 13 on the occasion of the Day of the Sun. Present there on invitation were Aleksandr Alekseyev, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, and leading officials of ministries including the Ministry of National Defence, deputies to the State Duma of Russia, leading officials of political parties and organizations and personage of various circles.
    The participants first laid a floral basket and bouquets before a life-size picture of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il and paid homage to them.
    The Russian vice-minister of Foreign Affairs said in his speech at the reception that they knew well about what a great contribution Kim Il Sung made in history of the development of the relations between Russia and the DPRK.
    He went on:
    The fraternal Korean leadership guided by Kim Jong Il is making efforts to further strengthen the friendly and traditional relations between Russia and the DPRK, developing the line of Kim Il Sung.
    The overall work for boosting the relations between Russia and the DPRK conforms to the interests of the two peoples and states.
    The treaty of friendship, good-neighborliness and cooperation between the Russian Federation and the DPRK signed in February 2000 and top-level agreements reached in Pyongyang, Moscow and Vladivostok serve as the solid foundation for boosting the Russia-DPRK relations and are of weighty importance in the efforts for security and peace in Northeast Asia under the present complex situation.
    We will make sustained efforts together with the Korean friends to ensure the stability and development in the region and make the fair realization of the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
    Such stand will always be maintained as it is the official stand of the Russian government.