RUSSIAN-CJapanese SUMMIT IS PREPARED IN IRKUTSK








TOKYO, 2 March (of RIA Nowosti rIA-Nowosti-Korrespondent Wjatscheslaw
Bantin).  Consultations of vice-ministers of foreign affairs of Russia
and Japan in the context of the preparation for 25 March in the
Siberian Irkutsk planned Russian-Japanese summit will take place on 5
March in Tokyo.

In the focal point of the consultation contents of a common assertion
will be located, with whose acceptance the Irkutsker meeting between
of Russia is to go president Vladimir Putin and Japan prime minister
Yoshiro Mori to end.

Of Japan external office it indicated that the Japanese page will be
represented with the consultations by the vice-minister of foreign
affairs Riozo Kato.  Its Russian interlocutor will be a vice-minister
of foreign affairs Alexander Lossjukow.