Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said at the plenary session of the Eastern Economic Forum that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin had “eaten pood of salt together,’ referring to a Russian proverb on close friendship.
“Ladies and gentlemen, it’s important for you to know that President Putin and I have had meal together time and time again, and as a result we are friends who have, as you might say, ‘eaten a pood of salt together.’ Only then can you see that we have our agendas that are overlapping,” Abe said.
Abe says has ‘eaten pood of salt together’ with Putin
