The message said that the leadership and people of Russia have achieved great successes in their struggle for building powerful and prosperous Russia in the face of all sorts of challenges and difficulties at home and abroad.

Expressing the belief that the DPRK-Russia friendly relations which greet a new heyday by the historic DPRK-Russia summit meeting would grow stronger by the common efforts as desired by the two peoples, it wished the Russian foreign minister continuous success in his work.