Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi said Thursday she is contemplating a visit to Russia sometime this fall or by the end of the year.
"I would certainly like to go (to Russia). The timing would be some time that is agreeable to both countries," Kawaguchi told reporters.
Kawaguchi, in Whistler for a Group of Eight meeting, met with Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov on Wednesday and the two agreed to activate political dialogue between the two countries and try to jump-start peace treaty negotiations.
Ivanov renewed his invitation to Kawaguchi to visit Russia and later told Russian reporters that she would visit Moscow in late fall.