Dmitry Zlatarev. The U.S. state Department on Thursday refused to give a concrete assessment of possible invitations to Japan for a visit of the President of Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, but believes that now is not the time to lead a normal dialogue with Russia.

first Deputy Chairman of the ruling in Japan the liberal democratic party, former foreign Minister Masahiko Koumura the meeting with the speaker of the state Duma Sergei Naryshkin said that Tokyo would like to see 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.

"We tell our partners, including Japan, that now is not the time to lead a normal dialogue with Russia. I think after the visit to Russia by Secretary of state John Kerry is propaganda about, because It is a variant of abandoning our concerns on the issue of Ukraine. This is not so, " said the correspondent of the official authorized state Department Marie Harf.

When reporters for the second time asked her to assess the possible invitation of the Russian leader to Japan, she said, " I have no comment, besides that now is not the time to lead a normal dialogue with Russia. We work with her When We can, but there are many issues on which we disagree ".

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