“From December 17 to 21, I intend to visit Russia. I will meet there with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as the person responsible for negotiating a peace treaty, ”TASS quoted him as saying.

He noted that before that, from December 12 to 17, he would make visits to Sri Lanka and Spain.

Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov commented on the words of the Secretary General of the Cabinet of Ministers of Japan, Yoshihide Sugi, on the peace treaty of Tokyo and Moscow, which can be concluded “after the resolution of the territorial issue”.