MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Last week, the ministry informed that the two countries would hold a round of consultations on the issue on August 17 in Moscow.
"The sides have discussed a set of potential high priority mutually beneficial projects within the framework of the joint economic activities," the ministry said in a statement.
The statement added that the two diplomats had also agreed to provide the leadership of the two states with the results of their joint work.
Russian-Japanese relations have long been complicated by the fact that the two nations have never signed a permanent peace treaty after World War II ended. This was due to a disagreement over a group of islands, which Russia calls the Southern Kurils and Japan — the Northern Territories, which consist of four territories: Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan and Habomai.The decision to establish joint economic activities on the disputed islands was reached during Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Japan in December 2016. In February 2017, then-Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said that these activities would focus on a number of areas, including fishing, tourism, healthcare and ecology among other issues.
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