Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is visiting Russia for the second time this year. AFP File Photo
VLADIVOSTOK: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow was keen to resolve a territorial dispute with Japan ahead of talks Friday with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, although a solution appears far off.
Tokyo-Moscow relations are hamstrung by a row dating back to the end of World War II when Soviet troops seized the southernmost islands in the Pacific Kuril chain, known as the Northern Territories in Japan.
“We are not talking about some kind of exchange or some kind of sale,” Putin said in an interview with …read more
Source: The Borneo Post
