NEAR Secretary General Jun invited Kuzma Aldarov, Vice-chairman of Legislative Assembly of Irkutsk Region to the banquet and expressed gratitude for Irkutsk’s(Chair region of NEAR) support and interest for NEAR. Meanwhile, he shared opinions on how to promote NEAR such as hosting the General Assembly celebrating the 20th anniversary of its founding in 2016. On the banquet, Jang Kyung-sik, Vice chairman of Gyeongsangbuk-do Provincial Council was in attendance and they discussed the plan to cooperate including a project to celebrate the 20th anniversary of establishing a sisterhood relation between Gyeongsangbuk-do Proivince and Irkutsk Region in 2016.