TOKYO, December 2. /TASS/. Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida has not ruled that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will pay a visit to Russia.
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Kishida said in an interview with the Nikkei newspaper that dialogue at the highest level between Russia and Japan is very important but the future will show how it will develop. The Japanese foreign minister also refused to make any forecasts on the date of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Tokyo saying that no concrete aims are set on this matter at the moment.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Antalya on November 16 that the Japanese prime minister plans to visit one of Russia’s regions before Putin’s official visit to Tokyo. Peskov stressed that Putin’s visit to Japan "will be further discussed." "The Japanese prime minister’s visit to one of Russia’s regions may take place before that, and it will the topic for discussion," the Kremlin spokesman noted.