Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the issue of concluding a peace Treaty with Russia.
"I'd like to move forward on the issue of detention (peace Treaty with Russia - Approx. Ed.) in the process of time " - drew the attention of the Abe interview to television channel NHK.
the range of opportunities for Abe in the Prime Minister ends in 2021. In the same interview, the Prime Minister said he does not think the extension of the tenure of the head of the ruling liberal democratic party, which, according to the exit polls, wins the election, retaining the majority of seats in the upper house of Parliament.
The dialogue of the two countries for many years overshadows the lack of a peace Treaty at the end of the Second world war. Condition of its conclusion, Japan has put the return of the Islands of the South Kuril Islands of Kunashir, Shikotan, Iturup and Habomai. Moreover, Tokyo specifies as the source of the bilateral Treatise about trade and borders of 1855.
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.
in 1956 the USSR and Japan signed a joint Declaration in which Moscow has agreed to take steps to transfer Habomai and Shikotan after the conclusion of peace, the fate of Kunashir and Iturup are not affected.
The USSR hoped that the document will put an end to the dispute, Japan saw this as only part of the resolution of the issue. Subsequent dialogues nor to no avail.
in November 2018, after a meeting between Putin and Abe in Singapore, the parties announced the acceleration of the negotiating process on a peace Treaty and the Kuril Islands. For a basis decided to take the document of 1956, which was a major concession from Japan.
However, as long as Moscow and Tokyo have not come to any agreement.
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