MOSCOW. Oct 23 (Interfax) - The vice president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Masahiko Komura, intends to visit Moscow at the beginning of next year, Shunichi Suzuki, a member of the Japanese House of Representatives and head of Japan's delegation to Russia, has said.
"Today I have brought a personal message to [Sergei Naryshkin], the chairman of the State Duma and a member of United Russia's Supreme Council, from the vice president of the Liberal Democratic Party, Mr. Masahiko Komura, who plans to visit Russia at the beginning of next year and will be pleased to meet once again with Mr. Naryshkin," Suzuki said at a meeting with United Russia faction leader and State Duma deputy speaker Vladimir Vasilyev, the chamber's Foreign Affairs committee chairman Alexei Pushkov and Russian-Japanese friendship group coordinator Mikhail Slipenchuk in Moscow on Friday.
The head of the Japanese delegation said earlier that this trip to Moscow was aimed at bolstering contacts between Russian and Japanese political parties, because the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan and United Russia are the ruling parties in their countries.