The chairman said that if each parliament is to fulfill its responsibility for shared wellbeing at present, it is important to enact laws and supervise their enforcement with attitude and stand as the genuine representative of the people, not by party interests and stratagem.

He expressed support for the stand of the International Parliamentary Union (IPU) that it is necessary to ensure closer ties between the IPU and the United Nations and thus increase the influence of MPs on the UN work, enhance its transparency and responsibility and put spurs to its reform.

The decisive guarantee for ensuring lasting peace and stability in the Korean Peninsula at present is to give top-priority respect to and thoroughly implement the north-south joint declaration, the supreme reunification programme of the nation, he said, and went on:

The present U.S. administration should not follow in the wake of the Bush administration, clearly understanding how its policy to isolate and stifle the DPRK by force went into total bankruptcy, but accept the DPRK's proposal for concluding a peace treaty at an early date and refrain from meddling in the affairs of the Korean nation and the inter-Korean relations.

Under the uplifted banner of independence, peace and friendship the DPRK will as ever develop the friendly and cooperative relations with all countries which respect the sovereignty of the DPRK and are friendly towards it, irrespective of differences in ideology and ism and system.

We will vigorously accelerate the building of an economic power in reliance on the solid foundation of the independent national economy and positively develop the economic cooperation with other countries on the principle of equality and reciprocity.

The Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK will make positive contributions to establishing a just and democratic international society fully representing the will of the absolute majority of the people in the world and thus fulfill its mission and duty as a full-fledged member of the IPU.