MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 14th September, 2018) The North Korean parliamentary delegation will take part in the work of the second Eurasian Women's Forum, Speaker of the Russian parliament's upper house (Federation Council) Valentina Matvienko said.
The forum will be held on September 19-21 in the Russian city of St. Petersburg. In early September, the Federation Council's delegation headed by Matvienko visited Pyongyang.
"I was glad to know that [North Korea] decided to send the women's delegation headed by parliament's Vice Speaker Ri Hye Jong [to the forum]. I talked to her, she expressed a great wish to visit the Eurasian Women's Forum," Matvienko told the Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper in an interview issued on Friday.
