Still, Putin asked if it matters “who hacked this data”, and argued that “the important thing is the content that was given to the public”.
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Clinton has rounded on her Republican rival Trump for his perceived praise of Putin and what she says is an “absolute allegiance” to Russia’s foreign policy aims.
“I don’t think they are setting the best example”, he said.
Japan claims a string of Russia-controlled western Pacificislands, called the Northern Territories in Japan and Southern Kuriles in Russian Federation.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday (Sept 3) spoke of their joint resolve to settle once and for all a territorial row over a string of tiny islands that has marred ties for more than seven decades. “We are talking about finding a solution where neither party will feel… defeated or a loser”.
“We will carefully watch what happens and wait for the election results”.
“Particularly regarding a peace treaty, the two of us alone had quite an in-depth discussion”. “Japan is not ready to drop its claims to the islands and Russian Federation will by no means recognize them”. Both the leaders will be discussing the islands, called the Southern Kurils by Russian Federation and the Northern Territories by Japan.
Abe and Putin were meeting on the sidelines of the Vladivostok Economic Forum, an annual event created to showcase investment opportunities in Russian Federation for Asian investors, especially from Japan and China.
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev infuriated Tokyo past year when he visited the islands, which are home to some 19,000 Russians. They are known as Etorofu, Kunishiri, Shitokan and the Hobomai islands and stretch north across the Pacific Ocean from the Japanese island of Hokkaido to the southern tip of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.
Bilateral trade between the countries past year fell by 31 percent to $21.3 billion, in part due to the punishing economic measures by Japan.
Russian leader though noted that it should be done with full respect to the mutual interests.
“No meeting in recent years has tested the ability of individual leaders like the December summit will”, a foreign ministry official said, describing Abe and Putin’s coming meeting in Yamaguchi Prefecture as a diplomatic opportunity that came about because of Abe’s long-running tenure at the top.
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Abe proposed eight areas of economic cooperation in the Russian Far East during that meeting and he went into further detail about what that would entail during the September 2 talks here.
