Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin shares his desire to resolve the territorial dispute and make a peace treaty, as Abe himself said in an interview with the Bungeishunju magazine.

Axar.az reports citing TASS.

"We both share a desire to find a solution to the territorial dispute and make a peace treaty," Abe said, adding that there was a relationship of trust between him and the Russian leader.

The Japanese prime minister also pointed out that in his two remaining years in office, he would seek to resolve the peace treaty issue and the issue of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea in the 1970s.

According to Abe, he has no plans to seek a fourth term as the ruling party’s head in a bid to once again become the country’s prime minister.