Pyongyang, October 18 (KCNA) -- An agreement on cooperation in trade and economy between the DPRK Ministry of Foreign Trade and the Amur regional government of the Russian Federation was signed here on Tuesday.

Present at the signing ceremony from the DPRK side were Minister Ri Ryong Nam and Vice-Minister So Kil Bok of Foreign Trade, Sim Kuk Ryong, DPRK consul-general to Nakhodka of Russia and officials concerned and from the opposite side Oleg Kozhemyako, governor of Amur Region and his party, Ambassador Valery Sukhinin and officials of the Russian embassy here.

Ri Ryong Nam and Oleg Kozhemyako inked the agreement.