Tokyo has expressed interest in the arrival of Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss territorial issues, for example, the issue of the Kuril Islands, said the Deputy Chairman of the ruling liberal democratic party of Japan, former Minister for foreign Affairs Masahiko Koumura the meeting with the speaker of the state Duma Sergey Naryshkin.
"I would like to go on a political theme, And we would like to conclude a peace Treaty, determined the territorial issue (question Smoked). And for this, we wished the Russian President Putin arrived in Japan. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is seriously thinks about this ", - quotes RIA "news" the message of Komori. 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. 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 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that Japan wants to work towards solving the territorial issue with Russia And the signing of the peace Treaty.
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