30 August 2019

Cabinet Vice Premier Ri Ryong-nam to Head DPRK Delegation at EEF 2019

A delegation from the North Korean government will take part in the fifth Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on 46 September. The delegation will be headed by Vice Premier of the DPRK Cabinet of Ministers Ri Ryong-nam, the DPRK Embassy in the Russian Federation said.

Ri Ryong-nam is expected to hold a series of meetings on the sidelines of the Forum to discuss measures and ways to bolster economic cooperation between the two countries. In particular, North Korea is interested in organizing working meetings with Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Plenipotentiary of the Russian President in the Far Eastern Federal District Yury Trutnev and Russian Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East and the Arctic Alexander Kozlov.

An official delegation from the DPRK also took part in the Eastern Economic Forum 2018. 

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