Present at the events were personages of government, organizations and institutions and artistes of Vietnam and the charge d'affaires ad interim and staff members of the DPRK embassy in Hanoi.

Vietnamese artistes gave a performance before the round-table talks

At the talks, the DPRK charge d'affaires referred to the significance of the first meeting between President Kim Il Sung and President Ho Chi Minh and called for boosting the friendly relations between the two parties and two countries in the spirit of an agreement reached at the historic summit in March 2019.

A Vietnamese vice-minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism expressed the will to steadily develop the traditional relations of friendship and cooperation provided and cultivated by the leaders of the two countries.

The chairman of the Cultural and Art Federation said that they would further the bilateral relations of friendship, provided by the preceding leaders, through strengthened cultural exchange between the two countries.

The head of a Vietnamese art troupe, which took part in the 32nd April Spring Friendship Art Festival, pledged to actively contribute to deepening the friendship between the two peoples through art exchange, cherishing deep in mind the pride of having performed in the presence of Comrade

Kim Jong Un on his official goodwill visit to Vietnam.