Pak In-chol, chairman of North Korea’s Supreme Folks’s Meeting, has held talks along with his counterparts from Russia and three different nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on the sidelines of a worldwide assembly of meeting chiefs, state media reported Sunday.
Pak met with the chairperson of Russia’s Federation Council, in addition to the heads of the Mongolian and Vietnamese assemblies and a deputy chairperson of the Lao parliament, throughout his attendance on the World Convention of Audio system of Parliament from final Tuesday to Thursday, the Korean Central Information Company (KCNA) stated.
Throughout her talks with Pak, Valentina Matvienko, the Russian parliamentary speaker, cited the “shut friendship” between the North Korean and Russian leaders because the “basic factor” that has elevated bilateral ties to their highest stage in historical past, the KCNA reported.
The company additionally quoted her as saying that Russia-North Korea ties “have overcome all types of challenges and proved their worth because the signing of the Complete Strategic Partnership treaty.” She additionally reaffirmed Russia’s solidarity with North Korea.
China’s prime legislator Zhao Leji additionally attended the worldwide occasion, however no talks passed off between him and Pak, a doable signal that bilateral ties have but to totally get better after being strained by Pyongyang’s shut alignment with Russia over the warfare with Ukraine, Yonhap information company reported.
The worldwide occasion has been hosted each 5 years since 2000 by the Inter-Parliamentary Union, a global group of nationwide parliaments, with North Korea persistently dispatching a consultant.
South Korea’s Nationwide Meeting Speaker Woo Received-shik additionally attended this 12 months’s occasion, however no assembly passed off between him and Pak both.