Putin-Abe talks in Sochi in May draw line under difficult period in bilateral relations - Naryshkin
TOKYO. June 17 (Interfax) - Negotiations held between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi in May drew a line under the difficult period that had lasted in bilateral relations for more than two years, Russian State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin said.
"We believe that those talks drew a certain line under the two-and-a-half-year period that was not the best in the development of our relations," Naryshkin said during a working lunch with Japanese House of Representatives Speaker Tadamori Oshima on Friday.
"As a result, a new positive agenda is being formed. We will work together to put it into practice. And the two countries' parliamentarians are playing far from the last role in this work," Naryshkin said.
Oshima, for his part, said it had been confirmed at the two leaders' meeting in Sochi that Putin would visit Japan at the best of times, and Abe would come to Vladivostok to attend the Eastern Economic Forum.
"I wholeheartedly want President Putin's visit to Japan to take place at the best of times," Oshima said.
