Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Tuesday he hopes to visit Russia at the earliest opportunity to get stalled peace-treaty negotiations with Moscow moving again.
Koizumi outlined this and other foreign policy initiatives during a meeting with reporters while en route to Canada for this week's summit of leaders of the Group of Eight industrialized countries.
The prime minister arrived here at noon Tuesday and then took a helicopter to the mountain retreat of Kananaskis, the venue of the two-day G8 summit.
There, he had meetings with U.S. President George W. Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien.