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Putin and Abe agree to speed up peace treaty talks - Kremlin

Putin and Abe agree to speed up peace treaty talks - Kremlin
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend a meeting on the sidelines of the ASEAN-Russia Summit in Singapore, November 14, 2018. Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin/Kremlin via REUTERS Copyright  SPUTNIK(Reuters)
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed on Wednesday to step up the pace of talks to end a decades-old territorial dispute, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

Russia and Japan have still not formally ended their World War Two hostilities because of the standoff which has held back economic ties between the two near-neighbours.

(Writing by Andrey Kuzmin; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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