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| ROK's Unification Minister Lee In-young listens to a question during a press conference at the Seoul Foreign Correspondent Club in Seoul on Feb 3, 2021. (File photo by=AHN YOUNG-JOON / POOL / AFP) |
[Asia News = Reporter Reakkana] SEOUL: Unification Minister Lee In-young will visit Germany, Belgium, and Sweden to discuss inter-Korean relations and seek support for South Korea's drive toward the peace process on the peninsula, his office announced on Monday.
Lee plans to hold a conference during his trip which will start on Wednesday, in Belgium with members of the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs and meet with European Union commissioners to seek cooperation and support from the EU on driving the peace process forward on the Korean Peninsula. In Sweden, Lee will hold talks with Foreign Minister Ann Linde and meet government officials in charge of the Korean Peninsula, as well as experts from various think tanks, to ask for Sweden's "active role as a mediator" in efforts to resume inter-Korean and North Korea-U.S. relations.
During his trip to Germany, Lee is expected to attend a ceremony Sunday to commemorate the 31st anniversary of the German unification at the invitation of the upper house and the lower house of the German parliament. Lee will also deliver a lecture on inter-Korean relations at Berlin's Free University on Saturday and visit German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Oct. 4 to discuss the experiences of German unification and its implications for the unification of the two Koreas.
