MOSCOW – Trade minister Hiroshige Seko and Russian Far East development minister Alexander Galushka agreed Friday to promote economic development projects in Russia’s Far East ahead of a summit between their leaders in December, Japanese government officials said.
Tokyo is hoping to use bilateral economic cooperation to make progress on a territorial dispute with Moscow over a group of islands seized by the Soviet Union after Japan’s World War II surrender in August 1945 that remain under Russian control.
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