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Bulgarian President Hopes for Steady Good Relations with DPRK

Pyongyang, July 25 (KCNA) -- Bulgaria attaches importance to the long-standing relations of friendship and cooperation with the DPRK and hopes that these relations would continue to develop on good terms in all fields.

Georgi Parvanov, president of Bulgaria, said this on July 20 when meeting outgoing DPRK Ambassador to his country Jo Sung Ju.

We are rejoiced over the fact that the relations between the two countries are favorably developing in different domains including politics, culture, education and public health, the president said, adding:

We hope that the issue of the Korean Peninsula would be settled in a peaceful way in conformity with the interests of the Korean people and they would register greater success in the drive to build a thriving nation.