S Korean President May Visit Russia for 2018 World Cup – Pres. Committee Chair

VLADIVOSTOK (Sputnik) - South Korean President Moon Jae-in may visit Russia in June within the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Song Young-gil, the chairman of the Presidential Committee on Northern Economic Cooperation, said Monday.

“The Eastern Economic Forum is an annual event, so we think that he [the South Korean president] can attend it, but now we are discussing the issue of his visit for the World Cup through the diplomatic channels. And it is possible that Mr. Moon Jae-in will visit Russia in June within the framework of this event,” the official told reporters.

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Russia will host its first FIFA World Cup from June 14 to July 15. The matches will take place in Kaliningrad, Kazan, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Saransk, Sochi, St. Petersburg, Volgograd, and Yekaterinburg.