At the talks both sides exchanged views on the issue of continuing to develop the long-standing friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries in several fields and the issues of mutual concern and reached a consensus.

The DPRK foreign minister stressed the need to continue to develop the traditional relations of friendship and cooperation between the two countries forged and developed by President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il with the preceding leaders of Mongolia irrespective of the changing situation.

The Mongolian foreign minister, saying that this year serves as an important occasion in developing the bilateral relations as it marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries, underlined the need to develop on good terms the Mongolia-DPRK relations of friendship with a long history and tradition.