Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attends a press convention after he votes within the presidential elections at a polling station in Minsk, on this photograph supplied by the Belarusian President’s press service, Belarus, Jan. 26. EPA-Yonhap
North Korean chief Kim Jong-un has despatched a congratulatory message to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who was just lately reelected to his seventh time period, in accordance with state media Tuesday.
„I prolong congratulations to you in your reelection as president of the Republic of Belarus,“ Kim was quoted as saying within the message despatched the day gone by, in accordance with the Korean Central Information Company (KCNA).
„I categorical my expectation that the pleasant and cooperative relations between the DPRK and the Republic of Belarus would develop in conformity with the pursuits of the peoples of the 2 international locations,“ Kim additionally stated.
DPRK stands for the Democratic Folks’s Republic of Korea, the official title of North Korea.
Lukashenko received a seventh five-year time period as Belarusian president in final month’s election, additional extending his 30-year rule.
Tuesday’s report follows an announcement two weeks earlier from Kim’s sister, Kim Yo-jong, during which she denied Lukashenko’s reported declare that North Korea had proposed a summit and emphasised that „veracity and frankness“ ought to be the start line in relations between the 2 nations.
North Korea has been extensively anticipated to strengthen ties with Belarus as its alignment with Russia deepens. Lukashenko is a detailed ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
For Lukashenko’s earlier presidential wins, North Korea both disclosed a congratulatory message despatched below the title of Kim Yong-nam, then president of the Presidium of the Supreme Folks’s Meeting, or didn’t report on such messages in any respect. (Yonhap)
