(MENAFN- QNA) South Korean President Park Geun-hye received on Friday a message from the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
The message was delivered by former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, during a meeting with Park today.
The message contents were not reviled, however a Seoul official said it would pave the road for an anticipated bilateral summit between the two neighbors.
It came at a time when the two countries are trying to repair soured relations between them.
According to South Korean news agency (Yonhap), Park has shunned a summit with Abe, who pursued nationalistic policies, though they met in a trilateral summit with U.S. President Barack Obama on the sidelines of a nuclear security summit in the Netherlands in March.
The issue of comfort women has long been one of the key sticking points in relations between the two countries, along with Japan's territorial claims to South Korea's easternmost islets of Dodo.
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