Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday on the eve of a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan Moscow with a sincere reconciliation with the mainland. The soldiers of the former Soviet Union after World War II in the Pacific
islands in the southern Kuril islands occupied all of the disputes between the two countries has been ever since. The islands, known in Japan as the Northern territory. Putin, in an interview with Bloomberg News, said: "We are not talking about the kind of exchange or sale. We are talking about a solution that does not think any of the sides lost or damaged. "Putin said, a peace treaty with Japan," the main thing ". He said Moscow with our Japanese friends to find a solution to this problem is very serious. Abe announced after Putin's visit to Japan in December to visit Russia. This year it will be his second visit to Russia. Putin will visit Japan in December 2005, his first visit since.
