Russia is ready to implement the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin on the Japanese Islands, as requested by the Japanese side, but need the support of Tokyo, said the speaker of the Russian state Duma Sergey Naryshkin. He added that before the alleged visit of the Russian leader could provide a breakthrough in Russian-Japanese relations, RIA " Novosti ". "before the alleged visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Tokyo could provide a qualitative leap in bilateral relations. This requires, most importantly, a lot of preparatory work on the content. To perform it alone is impossible: it requires support from partner. We are ready to move forward, I hope that Tokyo will be ready with its plans. In the words of President of the Russian Federation, the puck is currently on the side of Japan ", - Naryshkin said on Thursday on a press-the approach to Tokyo, where He is on an official visit. On Wednesday, the Chairman of the ruling liberal democratic party of Japan, former foreign Minister Masahiko Koumura the meeting with Naryshkin said in Tokyo would like to see the President of Russia Vladimir Putin arrived in Japan To discuss territorial issues. Press Secretary of Russian leader Dmitry Peskov later said that the Russian Federation will look Japanese invitation, unless it is formally renewed. Before Putin has said that Russia is ready to dialogue with Japan on the issue of the South Kuril Islands, but on the basis of the Japanese Parliament ratified documents of 1956. The position of the capital of Russia is that the southern Kuril Islands became part of the USSR on the results of the war and the Russian sovereignty over them, having international legal formalization, can not be questioned. 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. 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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