MINSK, August 23. /TASS/. Belarus and North Korea will soon sign a vise-free travel agreement, Belarusian Foreign Minister Maxim Ryzhenkov said.

"The agreement is ready, with only several technical aspects remaining. We will sign it in the near future," he told the Belarus-1 television channel.

He also said that he had spent his vacation in North Korea. "Even on vacation <…> I had a meeting with the North Korean foreign minister [Choe Son Hui]. We discussed with her the entire range of bilateral relations and agreed on further contacts between the foreign ministries and on the signing of a number of agreements, including this important agreement on visa-free travels," he explained.

Ryzhenkov said in late March that Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko had set a task of opening Belarus’ embassy in North Korea and expedite work on a fise-free travel agreement.