North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong completed a 10-day visit to Russia on Saturday in an effort to strengthen ties and further develop bilateral economic cooperation.

Ri has been in Russia since late September and met with a number of officials in Moscow and Russia’s far eastern regions, including his Russian counterpart.

“All the negotiations were successful, especially with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov,” Ri told ITAR-TASS upon his arrival at Pyongyang’s Sunan Airport on Saturday.

Apart from Lavrov, Ri had meetings with Russia’s minister for agriculture Nikolai Fyodorov, deputy prime minister and presidential envoy for the Far Eastern