Head of Russia and Japan pledged his country peace treaty

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe intend to overcome the differences in the positions of the parties and promote negotiations for a peace treaty between the two countries, the news agency Xinhua . This is stated in a joint statement, Putin and Shinzo Abe after talks in Moscow.

According to the text of the statement, the two leaders agreed that the situation in which after 67 years after the Second World War between Russia and Japan, not a peace treaty, "is abnormal." In this regard, in order to further the development of relations between the two countries and the creation of a broad Russian-Japanese partnership in the 21st century, the two leaders agreed to push forward negotiations on a peace agreement on the basis of all received to date documents and agreements, including the joint statement of the President of the Russian Federation and Prime Minister of Japan, the adoption of Russian-Japanese Action Plan and the Russian-Japanese Action Plan in 2003.

Putin and Abe also agreed to work together to instruct the foreign policy departments to "speed up negotiations on a mutually acceptable solutions to the problem of a peace treaty with a view to providing leaders of the two countries to discuss."

The main obstacle to the full settlement of the Russian-Japanese relations and the signing of a peace treaty is the problem supplies the South Kuril Islands. The territorial dispute between Japan and Russia, stretching from the end of World War II.