Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- [Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] . .Speech of Kim Jong Il at banquet Moscow, August 4 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, made a speech at the banquet given by Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, President of the Russian Federation, this evening. He said: I would like to thank you President Putin for kindly inviting us to this grand banquet and making a good speech. We have come to visit your country when witnessing a bright prospect of Korea-Russia friendship in the new century. I am very pleased that my russia visit provides me with an opportunity to see for myself your country full of patriotic enthusiasm to build a powerful Russia. The Russian Federation is now drawing the great attention of the international community for its positive foreign policy and energetic efforts to defend world peace and stability and establish a friendly and cooperative atmosphere in the overall international relations. We are well aware of your excellency's splendid leadership ability displayed in the work to build up the country's defence capability and economic potential and achieve socio-political stability and national prosperity and sincerely wish your people great success in this work. It is the common desire of our two peoples to glorify the Korea-Russia friendship with a long history and tradition century after century. The DPRK government and people will make positive efforts to strengthen and develop the Korea-Russia friendship still further in the hopeful new century, too. Convinced that the meeting with you President Putin here in Moscow in the first significant year of the new century will be of weighty significance in making closer traditional ties between the two governments and the two peoples, I would like to propose a toast: To the strengthening and development of the Korea-Russia relations of friendship, to the health of your excellency esteemed President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, to the health of all of you present here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Speech of V.V. Putin at banquet Moscow, August 4 (KCNA) -- Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, President of the Russian Federation, made a speech at the banquet given this evening in honour of Kim JongIil, Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. he said: Allow me to warmly and sincerely welcome you in kremlin in Moscow, the heart of Russia. It was of symbolic significance that banquets took place here in this hall in 1984 and 1986 in welcome of president of the DPRK Kim Il Sung. The first visit paid by Kim Jong Il to our country as the leader of the DPRK, I believe, will mark a new stage in the development of the relations between the two countries and provide an opportunity to continue to develop the candid and fruitful political dialogue between us. There is the old Korean saying "ten years are enough to change mountains and rivers." indeed, there is a time when the people and their life themselves change in a short period and there come a new era and priorities. This makes the long-standing and invariable traditions of good-neighborliness and multi-faceted cooperation between the two peoples more precious for us. These traditions stood the trials of the times and got stronger in the period of founding an independent state in Korea and enriched in the period of its postwar rehabilitation. Precisely these traditions served as a basis of the treaty of friendship, good-neighbourliness and cooperation signed between the two countries one and half years ago. This historic document confirmed the common desire of the peoples of Russia and the DPRK to develop the relations in the spirit of mutual respect and creative partnership and provided a main foundation for deepening collaboration between us. Today we have signed the Moscow declaration to confirm the common attitude of Russia and the DPRK towards pressing international issues and thus added to the treasure house of the bilateral agreement. Russia is ready to render cooperation in the efforts to establish a fair and safe system of international relations. Therefore, it is important for us that this attitude towards international issues is in line with the goal and principle of the foreign policy of the DPRK. One of the key issues concerning Russia-DPRK cooperation is to expand the trade and economic relations. We are convinced that the economic cooperation including cooperation involving the two countries' neighbours will not only exert strong financial effect but have a good impact on ensuring a sound situation in northeast Asia. I would like to stress that Russia is ready to have diverse effective cooperation with both the DPRK and the ROK. This attitude, I believe, is in full line with the interests of the Korean nation and the whole region. The historic meeting of the leaders of the DPRK and the ROK held in Pyongyang in summer last year is an important result of the mutual efforts and an expression of the wisdom and political responsibility of the leadership of north and South Korea. We welcome this resolute step taken on the way to reconciliation, cooperation and reunification. We sincerely hope that the uneasy yet only just decisions made in your land will help attain the goals set in the north-south joint declaration. We do not seek any unilateral interests while sharing with the Korean people the desire to reunify their country. Russia's interests in this is in accord with those of the Korean nation, and that is precisely the prosperity of all the Korean people, the guarantee of peace and reconciliation in the region and the consolidation of international security. We would like to regard today's meeting between us as a logical continuation of the dialogue that began in Pyongyang in summer last year. We deem it necessary to preserve the common will to deepen the spirit of mutual trust and the bilateral understanding. Esteemed comrade Kim Jong Il, I would like to wish you and all the citizens of the dprk happiness, success and wellbeing. Allow me to propose a toast: To the strengthening and development of the traditional friendly Russia-DPRK relations, to the longevity of Chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission comrade Kim Jong Il and to the health of all Korean and russian guests present here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------- This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: [email protected] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
