Belarusian Foreign Minister Feted

Pyongyang, July 24 (KCNA) -- The DPRK Foreign Ministry hosted a reception at Pyongyang Koryo Hotel on Tuesday evening in welcome of Maxim Vladimirovich Ruzenkov, foreign minister of the Republic of Belarus, on an official visit to the DPRK.
Present there on invitation were the entourage of the Belarusian foreign minister.
On hand were Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui and other officials of the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK.
Choe Son Hui made a speech at the reception. She stressed that it is the firm stand of the DPRK government to open up a new era of the development of the bilateral relations by comprehensively boosting the relations with the Republic of Belarus aspiring after the common ideal and purpose.
Maxim Vladimirovich Ruzenkov in his speech expressed the stand to further develop the relations between the two countries, to which President of the Republic of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko and Supreme Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Kim Jong Un pay deep attention, on the basis of mutual trust, respect and understanding.
The reception proceeded in a friendly atmosphere. -0-