Russian Ambassador to the DPRK Valery E. Sukhinin, doyen of the corps, conveyed the basket and letter to DPRK Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun.

Meanwhile, Kim Jong Un received floral baskets, congratulatory letters and gifts from the diplomatic envoys of Nigeria, Egypt, Cambodia, the charge d'affaires ad interim of the Syrian embassy, the Mongolian embassy, the missions of the WHO, the World Food Programme and the United Nations Children's Fund and the UNDP and the Economic Cooperation Bureau of Libya here.