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Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed on the text of the statement on the beginning of joint economic activity on the islands of the Kuril ridge. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the assistant to the Russian President Yuri Ushakov.

“Experts worked on the text for several weeks, but could not develop a text that would suit both parties. Therefore, our leaders had to take up this, who probably spent 40 minutes in order to agree on a joint text that will be published tomorrow,” Ushakov said.

Following the results of the negotiations held in private, Putin and Abe instructed experts to start detailed advice "in agreement of the conditions, forms and areas of joint economic activity." According to Ushakov, we are talking about all four southern Islands of the Kuril ridge.

To the question on what basis this activity will be carried out, Ushakov replied: "Based on Russian legislation. Of course, the islands belong to Russia."

Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted that the issue of sovereignty was not discussed at the negotiations of Putin and Abe.

The meeting of the Russian president and the Japanese Prime Minister began two hours later than the appointed time. The arrival of Putin’s plane was postponed.

“Yes, indeed, there was a slight delay, and our Japanese colleagues were informed about this. This was just due to the president’s working schedule, including Syrian affairs,” Preskov explained the delay of President. “The program was made up in this way, it simply began to move. The essence of what was happening, the duration of communication does not change in any way.”

The General Secretary of the Japanese Government Yoshihide Suga rejected the assumption that Putin’s delay could be the diplomatic maneuver of Russia. "This is just a delay. We do not think at all that this will affect the bilateral summit," Suga said .

Putin’s visit to Japan has been postponed since 2014. On Tuesday, Putin in an interview with the Japanese media stated that Russia has no territorial problems . “This Japan believes that it has territorial problems with Russia. We are ready to talk about this,” the president said. “We were negotiating, then the Japanese side unilaterally suspended these negotiations. Now, at the request of our Japanese partners, we returned to these negotiations again. Which team is submitted in this case in Judo? You know better than me, -“ Continue ”. We will continue. "

Prior to this, Abe, meeting with former residents of the southern smoking, announced his readiness to put an end to a territorial dispute with Moscow . "I want to go to the top negotiations to put an end to the territorial problem," the prime minister said.