Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
Tokyo … News Time
Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Japan in December, Russia and Japan this confirmed on Tuesday. Japan’s top government spokesman said that during the visit in detail later this week, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Vladimir Putin of Eastern Economic Forum, is expected to be finalized in Vladivostok. According to Yoshihide Suga, I think the most important thing is the element of trust between the two leaders in diplomacy. In this context, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Vladimir Putin, it is already common. In this regard, we will have the opportunity for us to take up the issue of return of 4 islands, which had indicated during the first meeting of the two leaders. Yoshihide Suga said that would be helpful in focusing attention on this new way of economic relations between Japan, Russia. The thing to avoid answering directly whether Japan will accept a non-negotiable which is placed around the island back to Japan, saying that it needs to be brought clearly to the question of the 4 islands. This island located between Japan and Russia, which have been strained over the Pacific Ocean. The islands are noted as the Southern Kuriles in Russia called NAS in Japan, Which had been occupied by the Soviet Union during the war against Japan in August 8, 1945. After the incident, the two sides have not signed a peace treaty since the end of War II. In 2014 the island as well as from Russia, Ukraine, other Western countries after merging Crime includes the United States, Japan, was involved in imposing sanctions against Russia. Shinzo Abe has twice traveled to Russia and met with Putin several times. However, the Russian president to Japan since 2005.
