Japan and Russia will likely revive security talks and keep discussing a territorial row that has kept them from signing a peace treaty formally ending World War II, Russia’s foreign minister said yesterday, as the countries’ leaders met.Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks at a hot spring resort, seeking progress on the row over windswept isles in the western Pacific controlled by Russia but also claimed by Japan.Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters that Putin had offered to resume security talks among their foreign and defence ministers, suspended after Russia annexed the Crimea region …read more
Source: Gulf times
