No documents to be signed following Putin-Abe talks May 6 - Kremlin

MOSCOW, May 5. /TASS/. No documents are planned to be signed following talks in the southern Russian resort of Sochi May 6 between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov said Thursday. "The working status of the visit does not envision the signing of any documents; no joint media scrum is stipulated either," Ushakov said, explaining that from the Russian side, journalists will be informed about the results of the meeting by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The talks will first be held in the narrow format, and then with participation of the delegations in the format of an expanded working breakfast, he said. The leaders are also expected to hold a tete-a-tete conversation. "It will evidently be held prior to the working breakfast, immediately after the narrow-format conversation," Ushakov said. "I know that no one is going to exchange pets," the Russian presidential aide said in response to a question from journalists whether the leaders plan to give each other gifts in continuation of the 2012 story, when Putin, thanking the head of Japan’s Akita Prefecture for an Akita-inu puppy, sent him a Siberian cat in response. Read more