Present there were Ri Ryong Nam, minister of Foreign Trade, Choe Pae Jin, vice-chairman of the State Planning Commission, officials concerned and Valery E. Sukhinin, Russian ambassador to the DPRK, Aleksei Borodavkin, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Ruslan Tatarinov, director of the Secretariat of the Federation Council, Andrei Baklanov, director of the Bureau for International Relations of the Federation Council, Konstantin Pulikovski, advisor to the chairman of the Federation Council, and other suite members.