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Expansion and Development of South-South Cooperation Urged

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

   Pyongyang, October 2 (KCNA) -- It is the consistent stand of the DPRK to expand and develop South-South cooperation, declared Choe Su Hon, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, who was heading the DPRK delegation, on September 27 at the meeting of foreign ministers of the Group of 77 held on the sidelines of the 62nd session of the UN General Assembly.
    Manifesting the view of the delegation on the meeting's purport of defining the common stand of the G-77 toward the main agenda items of the economic and social fields which were brought up for discussion at the 62nd session of the UN General Assembly, he said:
    The G-77 should make the common actions of the developing countries against the unilateral and strong-arm practices in the economic and social fields more organized and strengthened and continue to orchestrate the efforts to expand and boost South-South cooperation.
    It should promote the expansion and development of South-South cooperation, keeping hold on this as its unswerving policy guideline and enhance its capacity of collective action as the champion of the interests of the developing countries in multilateral negotiating arenas.
    Showing deep interest in boosting South-South cooperation, the DPRK government has devoted disinterested support and efforts, zealously involving itself in the Non-Aligned Movement and the activities of the G-77 and the United Nations system.
    The DPRK government, true to its commitments at the Second South Summit, initiated cooperation programs in different realms such as agriculture, bioscience, standardization and measurement for a number of developing countries in Asia and Africa and has made governmental efforts for their implementation this year, too, following last year and gained good experience and results in this course.
    The DPRK will make in the future, too, an active contribution to the building of a peaceful and prosperous independent world by fulfilling its obligation and duty in establishing a new international economic order based on justice, equality and impartiality and further expanding and developing South-South cooperation based on collective self-reliance.