UNITED NATIONS : Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had his first face-to-face meeting in nearly a year on Monday with Russian President Vladmir Putin, reports Japan Today.
At their last meeting on the sidelines of an Asian summit in China last November, they agreed the Russian leader would come to Japan during 2015. But ties have been strained by the Ukraine crisis. Like the U.S. and the European Union, Japan imposed sanctions on Russia.
But Abe regards resolution of a long-standing territorial dispute with Russia and deepening economic ties as a key foreign policy priority.
The territorial dispute over islands called the southern …read more
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