Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida held a phone conversation on Thursday to discuss the security talks between Russia and the West as well as the Ukrainian crisis.
According to a Kremlin statement, Putin informed Kishida in detail of the ongoing negotiations between Russia and the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on the establishment of long-term and legally binding security guarantees.
Putin also explained the origins and causes of the intra-Ukrainian conflict, outlining Russia's fundamental approaches to its settlement in accordance with the 2015 Minsk agreements and decisions adopted in the Normandy format.
As for Russian-Japanese relations, the leaders expressed common interest in the constructive development of bilateral ties on the basis of existing agreements, including in the trade and economic sphere.
