Beijing, September 21 (DPRK ISG Information Bureau - RSTV)   

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On September 16, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Comrade Andrei Yuryevich Rudenko received representatives of the Soviet Peace Fund in the persons of Sergei Nikolaevich Baburin and Sergei Vyacheslavovich Ryzhik on the eve of the departure of the delegation of the Soviet Peace Fund to the World Peace Forum in China.

Comrade Baburin received an official invitation from the Chinese People's Association for Peace and Disarmament as a representative of Russia. During the meeting, it was noted that Chinese and Vietnamese officials do not recognize the raider takeover of the Fund and support its legitimate leadership.

Comrade Baburin also conveyed an appeal from national peace funds to Minister Lavrov in connection with the attempts at a raider takeover of the Fund.

On September 18, a delegation of the Soviet Peace Fund, at the invitation of the Chinese People's Association for Peace and Disarmament, arrived on an official visit to Beijing, PRC.