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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.

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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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