GLENEAGLES (Scotland), July 8 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the end of the Group of Eight summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, that work, trust and intensive cooperation was needed to solve the territorial problem facing Russia and Japan.
"If we want to resolve the territorial problem, or the problem of signing a peace treaty between Russian and Japan, we must work on it. In order to work we must meet and trust each other. And to be able to trust each other we must develop cooperation," President Putin said when asked whether the territorial problem had been an obstacle to reaching an agreement on the date of his visit to Japan.