By Kiyoshi Takenaka | TOKYO TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Russia next month for a summit with President Vladimir Putin, his foreign minister said on Monday, with an aim of advancing his effort to end a territorial spat and conclude a peace treaty.Abe has pledged to resolve the territorial dispute over a string of western Pacific islands, seized by Soviet troops at the end of World War Two, in the hope of leaving diplomatic legacy and building better ties to counter a rising China.The feud has precluded a formal peace treaty between the two countries. Speaking to …read more
Source: Firstpost
