Comrade Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, first vice-chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, met and had a friendly talk with a Syrian government delegation led by Walid Al-Muallem, deputy prime minister and minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on Tuesday when the delegation paid a courtesy call on him.