Politics

The 32nd Plenary Meeting of the 14th Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly (SPA) of the DPRK took place at the Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang on September 15.

Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, first vice-president of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and chairman of the SPA Standing Committee, presided over the plenary meeting.

Present at the plenary meeting were vice-chairmen Kang Yun Sok and Kim Ho Chol, Secretary General Ko Kil Son, and other members of the SPA Standing Committee.

Relevant officials of the SPA Standing Committee, the Secretariat of the Cabinet, ministries and national agencies were on hand as observers.

The plenary meeting discussed as its agenda items the issue of convening the SPA of the DPRK, the issue of deliberating on and adopting the law on socialist exchange of materials and the law on maintenance of public buildings, the issue of deliberating on and adopting the amendments to the law on road traffic and the law on external economic arbitration and the issue of examining and approving the amended master plan for land development in the Pyongyang-Nampho area.

First, the plenary meeting adopted an SPA Standing Committee's decision on convening the 11th Session of the 14th SPA of the DPRK with unanimous approval.

Then, there was a report on the main contents of relevant draft laws and amendments deliberated on at the SPA Legislation Committee.

On the basis of study and discussion of the proposed bills, the plenary meeting adopted with unanimous approval a decree of the SPA Standing Committee "On adopting the Law of the DPRK on Socialist Exchange of Materials", "On adopting the Law of the DPRK on Maintenance of Public Buildings", "On amending and supplementing the Law of the DPRK on Road Traffic" and "On amending and supplementing the Law of the DPRK on External Economic Arbitration".

It also deliberated on and approved the amended master plan for land development in the Pyongyang-Nampho area.