Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed Saturday to set up a high-level framework on negotiations for concluding a bilateral postwar peace treaty based on a 1956 joint declaration. The new talks — which are aimed at speeding up negotiations for a long-standing dispute over
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed Saturday to set up a high-level framework on negotiations for concluding a bilateral postwar peace treaty based on a 1956 joint declaration.
The new talks — which are aimed at speeding up negotiations for a long-standing dispute over islands off Hokkaido — will be led by Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, a senior Japanese official said after an Abe-Putin meeting on the margins of a Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires.
