Present at the talks from the DPRK side were Ri Kwang Gun, vice-minister of External Economic Relations, and officials concerned and from the opposite side were the party of the minister of Development of the Far East and Arctic of the Russian Federation, Alexandr Matsegora, Russian ambassador to the DPRK, and members of his embassy.

The talks discussed matters of further revitalizing the work of the DPRK-Russia Intergovernmental Committee for Cooperation in Trade, Economy, Science and Technology and putting the equally-beneficial economic and trade relations between the two countries on a higher stage.