Achieve Quote by Vladimir Putin

At the request of my Japanese colleagues, in 2000 we revisited the possibility of signing a peace treaty based on the 1956 agreement.

— 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

I will not offer my thoughts on what Japan could and should have done, this is none of my business, it is the business…

— Vladimir Putin

I do not want to speak about our cooperation with Japan now. Thank God, we have had no such problems there. Nor would we…

— Vladimir Putin

We were in negotiations, but then the Japanese side suspended them unilaterally. Now, at the request of our Japanese partners, we have reopened these…

— 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

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

There is always a chance [for negotiations with Japan], or else it makes no sense to talk. How great is it? Right now, it…

— Vladimir Putin

If we do it, if we work to achieve all this [cultural exchange with Japan], we can and should talk about joint efforts toward…

— Vladimir Putin

I think within Japan there is talk about how there is the need to reassess the future of the U.S.-Japan alliance.

— Lee Myung-bak

Notably, it was only possible [ negotiating on the Tarabarov Island], and this is very important, due to the high level of trust Russia…

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Howard Baker