Ceremony for Welcoming Belarusian President Held
A ceremony took place at
Seen standing at the square were the poles with national flags of the DPRK and the Republic of Belarus, the guard of honor and the honorary cavalry of the Korean People’s Army, and the Central Military Band of the Ministry of National Defence.
Attending the ceremony were Jo Yong Won, chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK, Kim Jae Ryong, Ri Il Hwan and Kim Song Nam, secretaries of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Choe Son Hui, foreign minister of the DPRK, and Kim Tok Hun, first vice-premier of the Cabinet.
Pyongyang citizens and schoolchildren were present there with the national flags of the two countries and flowers in their hands.
When a limousine carrying the Belarusian president arrived at
He introduced major leading cadres of the Party and the government to Aleksandr Lukashenko.
He exchanged greetings with Yuri Shuleiko, deputy prime minister of the government of the Republic of Belarus, Maxim Ryzhenkov, minister of Foreign Affairs, Aleksandr Khodzhayev, minister of Public Health, Andrei Ivanets, minister of Education, and Andrei Kuznetsov, minister of Industry, and took the platform together with Aleksandr Lukashenko.
The national anthems of the Republic of Belarus and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea were played while a ２１-gun salute boomed.
Aleksandr Lukashenko received a salute from the chief of the guard of honor of the KPA.
Guided by
There was a march-past of the guard of honor of the KPA.
Aleksandr Lukashenko expressed his heartfelt thanks to the DPRK government and people for their sincere hospitality.
Political News Team