Agreement Quote by Vladimir Putin

Of course, we will work towards that end. Of course, we will work to achieve this result. However, you have just mentioned the 1956…

— Vladimir Putin

We are natural partners [with Japan] in the world and the Far East, but the absence of a peace treaty does not allow us…

— Vladimir Putin

The absence of a peace treaty [with Japan] is an anachronism we inherited from the past and it must be removed. However, how to…

— Vladimir Putin

This is the large range of issues we have to discuss [with Shinzō Abe] and make a decision on each one of them. Look,…

— Vladimir Putin

In 2000 the then Prime Minister of Japan [Yoshirō Mori] asked me to return to this process, this conversation, these talks, and to do…

— Vladimir Putin

Back in 1956, we signed a treaty and surprisingly it was ratified both by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and the Japanese…

— Vladimir Putin

Our agreements on creating the conditions for preparing a peace treaty [with Japan] should be rooted in this trust. This may be achieved, for…

— Vladimir Putin

As for these 60 years, and in general more than a hundred years, we have had different periods in relations and there have been…

— Vladimir Putin

You recalled the 1956 declaration, and this declaration established the rules that should be followed by both sides and that should be put into…

— Vladimir Putin

It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it,…

— Eisaku Sato

We must examine then the concerns of the Government of Japan about the language of the treaty itself - of SOFA - and of…

— Howard Baker

If we act together along these lines, we will create conditions, the conditions for trust that Shinzō Abe speaks about, so as to take…

— Vladimir Putin