New Japan PM seeks trust-based relations with RF leadership
12:57, 18 September 2009
TOKYO. September 18. KAZINFORM Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama would like to establish relations of personal trust with the Russian leadership and on this basis to achieve in 6 months progress in the South Kurils talks and conclusion of a peace agreement between the two countries; Kazinform refers to ITAR-TASS.
"What's most important is to build personal trust with each other," he said in a conversation with journalists in the yard of his residence in central Tokyo. "Without relations of trust, how can we expect progress on the territorial problem? So we will develop relations of trust quickly"; Kazinform cites ITAR-TASS.
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