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On July 19, Alexander Dynkin, RIAC member, Director of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, RAS Academician, and Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, had a meeting with delegation of deputies from the Japanese House of Councillors visiting Moscow and representing major Japanese political parties.

Full version

On July 19, Alexander Dynkin, RIAC member, Director of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, RAS Academician, and Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, had a meeting with delegation of deputies from the Japanese House of Councillors visiting Moscow and representing major Japanese political parties.

Japanese delegation was headed by the representative of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan Masaji Matsuyama, Deputy Chair, Japanese-Russian Discussion Club of the House of Councillors. Earlier Masaji Matsuyama worked as State Secretary, Senior Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan.

The following issues were discussed in the course of the meeting with the Japanese members of parliament: development of Russian-Japanese bilateral relations, security issues in North-Eastern Asia, situation in Asia-Pacific region in general. The meeting was mediated by the Ambassador of Japan to Russia Toehisa Kodzuki.