Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has promised to make every effort to finish the dialogue with Russia on concluding a peace Treaty. About it informs television channel NHK. Abe along with his wife visited the land of their ancestors - the city of Nagato, Yamaguchi Prefecture and visited the grave of his father. He, as said the Japanese Prime Minister, also worked to improve relations between Moscow and Tokyo. Shintaro Abe was the head of the foreign Ministry from 1982 to 1986. according to his statement, this year there will be a "turning point" in the history of territorial disputes between countries. yesterday, Abe said that the issue of the Kuril Islands does not have the ability to be solved without the consent of their inhabitants. Japan claims the Southern Kurile Islands. The head of the Japanese government noted that the complaints Tokyo do not involve eviction from this place of Russian citizens. in November, Abe met with Vladimir Putin. The parties agreed to speed up dialogue on a peace Treaty on the basis of the Soviet-Japanese Declaration of 1956. in this document, Tokyo and Moscow expressed its readiness to conclude a peace Treaty, after which the Soviet Union agreed to give Japan the Islands of Habomai and Shikotan. The parties have ratified the Declaration, but then Tokyo did not want to comply, insisting on the return of the 4 Islands. in the capital of Russia pay attention 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. <span style="color:darkgray