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Talks Held between Speakers of DPRK SPA and Russian State Duma

Moscow, June 23 (KCNA) -- There took place talks between Choe Thae Bok, chairman of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly (SPA), and Sergei Narishkin, speaker of the Russian State Duma, at the building of the State Duma on Tuesday.

Present at the talks from the DPRK side were the chairman's party and Kim Hyong Jun, DPRK ambassador to Russia, and from the Russian side were Ivan Melinikov, first deputy speaker of the State Duma, and other officials concerned.

Both sides exchanged views on the issue on further developing friendship and cooperation between the assemblies of the two countries and issues of mutual concern.