Residents of the South Kuril Islands voted against the transfer of Islands of Japan
A large number of the interviewed residents of the southern Kuril Islands voted against transfer of Japan, inform social data research poll, published on the Internet representation of the organization.
The sociologists stressed that at the same position are citizens of different age groups on different Islands of the archipelago.
research work was carried out eleven to 17 February on the Islands of Kunashir, Shikotan and Iturup for more than 50 interviewers in three formats: door-to-door survey of businesses and places (cinemas, shops). During this period of time they interviewed 7 thousand 695 people over the age of 18 (about 70% of adult residents of the Islands).
according to the results of social research of the Sakhalin deputies adopted a statement on the position of the island Parliament on the privacy of the Islands and the territorial integrity of the state.
"The Sakhalin regional Duma on the basis of the provisions of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, for many years to inform that the Kuril Islands are an integral part of the Russian Federation and its subject - the Sakhalin region. Considering wide public resonance, caused by this theme, the all-Russian center for the study of the opinions of a large number of citizens held a survey of residents of the Kuril Islands in terms of their personal relationship to territorial belonging of the Islands ", - said in the document.
with his hand at the time acting head of the region Valery Limarenko said that it fully shared the position of President of the Russian Federation V. V. Putin, the elected representatives and local residents on the issue of jurisdiction of the Islands.
"We are all United in this issue from the head of the country to local resident. Citizens live there, build their plans, the question of territorial claims need to finish, " he told reporters.
The dialogue 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 signing a peace Treaty with Russia, which at the end of the Second world war and was not signed.
The position of the capital of Russia lies in the fact that the Islands became part of the USSR according to the results of the Second world war and the Russian sovereignty over them cannot be questioned.
in November of last year After a meeting between Putin and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told the parties to accelerate negotiations on a peace agreement and the Kuril Islands. Took the 1956 Declaration, which became a major concession from Tokyo.
The fourteenth of January in the capital of Russia hosted the 1st round of negotiations of head the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov and his Japanese counterpart, Taro Kono peace Treaty between Russia and Japan. After the meeting, Lavrov drew attention that the parties confirmed their readiness to work on the basis of the 1956 Declaration, " which means, most importantly, the immutability of the very first step - respect for Japan, results of world war II in full, including Russia's sovereignty over the South Kuril Islands ".