If relations between Moscow and Tokyo have not interfered by external factors, Russia and Japan could achieve more, said on Thursday the speaker of the state Duma Sergey Naryshkin. "we have good potential for increasing cooperation, and felt the mutual interest of our peoples to the expansion of contacts. I'm sure we could do better, but, unfortunately, that create obstacles factors that are not directly connected with the relations of Russia and Japan hinder the actions of individual countries thousands of kilometers away from Russia and Japan ", - quotes RIA "news" words Naryshkin, the press release approach, in Tokyo, where he is on an official visit. "Someone thinks that I need to take a break and postpone the General broad plans aside. I think differently: currently, the most ought to scenariowhat attention on the Essentials of self-worth relationships. It is important to catch the pulses coming from the public, business, academic and cultural circles, to make more vigorous efforts to move forward, " he continued. In his speech on the Japanese Islands Sergei Naryshkin said that the Russian Federation is ready to engage in the preparation of the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin at the request of the Japanese side. On Wednesday, the Chairman of the ruling liberal democratic party of Japan, former foreign Minister Masahiko Koumura the meeting with Naryshkin said in Tokyo would like to see the President of Russia Vladimir Putin arrived in Japan to discuss territorial issues. Press Secretary of Russian leader Dmitry Peskov later said that the Russian Federation will look Japanese invitation, Unless it is formally renewed. Before Putin has said that Russia is ready to dialogue with Japan on the issue of the South Kuril Islands, but on the basis of the Japanese Parliament ratified documents of 1956. The position of the capital of Russia is that the southern Kuril Islands became part of the USSR on the results of the war and the Russian sovereignty over them, having international legal formalization, can not be questioned. We will emphasize Japan's claim to the Kuril Islands: Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan and the Habomai archipelago, pointing to the bilateral Treatise on trade and borders of 1855. The return of the Islands to Tokyo made it a condition of signing a peace Treaty with Russia, which at the conclusion of the Second world war was never signed. On 21 January, the foreign Minister of Japan Fumio Kishida, while in Belgium, compared the problem of the South Kuril Islands with the situation in Ukraine. In the early winter of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that Japan wants to work towards solving the territorial issue with Russia and the signing of the peace Treaty.