Putin has told that will facilitate the conclusion of a peace Treaty with Japan
Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with heads of foreign news agencies, among whom was the head of editorial articles and reviews Agency Kyodo Hiroki Sugita, said that he considers it possible to conclude a peace Treaty with Japan through the mutual conduct of economic activities on the Islands of the South Kuril Islands and the development of bilateral relations.
Agency Kyodo the majority recounts the words of the President of the Russian Federation about the fact that in overall economic activities in 4 Islands of the South Kuril Islands, which are claimed by Japan, through the development of exchanges with these Islands and the development of bilateral relations " as a result, it is possible to reach a peace Treaty ".
The President of Russia gave to understand that the issue of the Islands can be on the basis of mutual Declaration of 1956, according to which the Soviet Union was obliged to give Japan two Islands of Habomai and Shikotan after the conclusion of a peace Treaty. At the same time Putin recalled that "Japan unilaterally did not want from the implementation" of the Declaration. In addition, Putin said that for the Japanese "created the rules for visa-free visits (Islands), removed different limits," and it is also required to help move forward to conclude a peace Treaty.
the head also has noticed that " Russia and Japan are making efforts to find a compromise acceptable to both countries."
Relations between Russia and Japan for many years overshadows the lack of a peace Treaty. Japan claims the Islands of Kunashir, Shikotan, Iturup and Habomai, indicating bilateral Treatise on trade and borders of 1855. The return of the Islands Tokyo made it a condition of concluding a peace Treaty, which at the end of the Second world war and was not signed. The position of the capital of Russia is that the southern Kuril Islands became part of the USSR according to the results of the Second world war and the Russian sovereignty over them with appropriate international legal design, not subject to doubt.