DPRK Ambassador Ri Chong Gyong courteously conveyed the warm greeting sent by Kim Jong Un, president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, to Interim President BAH N' DAW.

The interim president expressed deep thanks for it and asked the ambassador to convey his heartfelt fraternal greeting to His Excellency Kim Jong Un.

He said that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries are firm relations that were provided by first president of Mali Modibo Keita and the great President Kim Il Sung and have been developed on good terms up to now.

He affirmed that the government and people of Mali would value the relations with the DPRK proud of sixty-odd-year-long history of friendship and cooperation and exert their efforts to invariably consolidate and develop them.