The Japanese government believes that the sovereignty of Tokyo also applies to the southern part of the islands of the Kuril Ridge, the head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry of Esiimas Hayashi was announced at the press conference on January 18. Reports about it TASS.
Hayashi commented on the statement of the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov at a recent press conference, when a Russian diplomat spoke on solving a territorial dispute around the islands of the South Kuril ridge. The Japanese side refused to enter into a peace treaty without a prior address of the dispute about smoked.
“on four northern islands (the name of the islands of the South Kuril ridge in Japan – approx.” Ribbons. Ru “) is distributed by our sovereignty. We intend to continue persistent negotiations based on our basic position, which is the desire to sign a peace treaty after the decision territorial question, “said Hayashi.
Hayashi and Lavrov already discussed in November last year the issue of the territorial affiliation of the Kuril Islands on the phone. The parties “confirmed the intention to continue the dialogue” to conclude the world.
Due to the dispute about the belonging of the southern part of Kuril Moscow and Tokyo cannot sign a peace treaty on the results of the Second World War. Japan believes the islands of ITUURUP, Kunashir, Shikotan and a group of Habmioma Islands with its “northern territories”. In turn, Russia does not recognize the very fact of the territorial dispute, referring to the situation of the Soviet-Japanese declaration of 1956.