Russia`s delegation to participate in celebration in North Korea

PYONGYANG, August 15 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia's delegation, headed by
Minister of Regional Development Viktor Basargin, will take part on Sunday
in the celebration of the DPRK's national holiday - the 65th anniversary
of liberation of Korea.
The delegation will lay wreaths to the memorial to Koran citizens who
died in the war with Japan's occupants. Flowers will be laid also to the
statue of Kim Il Sung.
The Russian officials will visit the Liberation Tower at the Monanbong
Mountain. The engraving there reads "Long live the Great Soviet Army,
which liberated the people of Korea from the yoke of Japan's militarists
and opened the way to freedom and independence." The members of the
delegation will go to the graveyard, where Soviet soldiers and citizens
are buried, and to the orthodox Sacred Trinity Church, which was built at
the order of Kim Jong Il.
As chairman of Russia's part in the intergovernmental committee on
trade, economic, scientific and technical cooperation, Basargin will have
talks with his Korean counterpart, Minister of Foreign Trade Ri Ryong
Nam. The sides will exchange views on the bilateral contacts, first of all
in the economy.
The head of the Russian delegation will meet with Chairman of the
Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea Kim Jong-nam.

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