Moscow has expressed Tokyo protest for the map with the Japanese Kuril Islands in the G20
Moscow protested to Tokyo due to the fact that the materials of the G20 summit in the 1st video of the Southern Kuril Islands was designated as a Japanese area. About this said the official authorized the Ministry of foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova.
Moscow protested to Tokyo due to the fact that the materials of the G20 summit in the 1st video of the Southern Kuril Islands was designated as a Japanese area. About this said the official authorized the Ministry of foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova.
The note points to the misuse of the Japanese side " functions of the head of the group of twenty to promote unfounded territorial claims to Russia ".
The diplomat stressed because it contradicts the documents that secure the end of the Second world war.
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 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 parties declared 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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