Putin to meet Turkish president, Japanese prime minister: Kremlin
Xinhua, August 4, 2016 Adjust font size:
Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in August and early September respectively, the Kremlin said Thursday.
Putin and Erdogan will discuss restoring ties in St. Petersburg on August 9, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
"There will be an exchange of views on how fast and in what order we will engage in the restoration of our relationship," Peskov said.
The two countries ended seven months of tension in late June when Erdogan wrote a letter to Putin apologizing for the downing of a Russian jet in November last year and thus fulfilled Moscow's condition for restoring the relationship between the two countries.
On September 2 and 3, Putin will attend the Eastern Economic Forum in the Russian city of Vladivostok, on the sidelines of which he is scheduled to meet with Abe and South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Peskov added.
"Of course there will be quite a significant bilateral component with the Japanese and the Koreans," he said.
The Japanese prime minister made a fence-mending visit to Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi in early May and met with Putin there amid strained ties between Russia and Japan due to their lingering territorial disputes. Endi