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VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday that talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin are moving towards a peace treaty.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attend a meeting on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, on September 10, 2018. Mikhail Metzel / TASS / Pool News Agency via REUTERS
Russia and Japan have not signed a peace treaty since the Second World War because of a dispute over the Pacific Islands known in Russia as Kuriles and Japan as Territories. North.
Abe also said after a meeting with Putin in Vladivostok that the leader of Japan's self-defense forces will visit Russia in October.
He added that it was necessary to solve the problem of the kidnapping of Japanese citizens by North Korea and that he had received the support of Putin on this subject.
Report by Denis Pinchuk and Vladimir Soldatkin; Writing by Andrey Kuzmin
