Japan did not stop negotiations on the conclusion of a peace Treaty, said the Minister of foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida, explaining the words of the President of the Russian Federation on Russian-Japanese relations. "(The) fact that the Japanese side has stopped dialogues about the conclusion of a peace Treaty between Japan and Russia, it is absolutely not the case ", - quotes the expression of the Minister of RIA "news" referring to the Japanese Agency Kyodo. Kishida recalled that in February this year, the negotiations at the level of Deputy Ministers discussed the issue of signing a peace Treaty. He expressed the hope that " Russia will come to the talks with seriousness ". On Thursday, several media outlets have quoted Vladimir Putin about what Russia is ready to dialogue with Japan, but He collapsed in practice on the initiative of the Japanese side. Remember, during a Straight line with the Russians on Thursday, Putin said that the inhabitants of the Kuril Islands are unlikely to vote for annexation to Japan." We are ready for dialogue with Japan on this score (the Kurile Islands), as well as among them on the basis of known documents, 1956, which have been ratified by the Japanese Parliament, " He said. on 21 January, the foreign Minister of Japan Fumio Kishida, while in Belgium, compared the problem of the South Kuril Islands with the situation in Ukraine. In the early winter of last year the Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe said that Japan wants to work towards solving the territorial issue with Russia and the signing of the peace Treaty. We will emphasize Japan's claim to the Kuril Islands: Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan and the Habomai archipelago, pointing to the bilateral Treatise on trade and borders of 1855. The return of the Islands to Tokyo made it a condition of signing a peace Treaty with Russia, which at the conclusion of the Second world war was never signed. Russia's position is that the Southern Kuril Islands became part of the USSR on the results of the war and the sovereignty of the Russian Federation over them, which is international-legal registration, can not be questioned.
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