In Japan, declassified materials of talks with the US on the Kuril Islands in 1960
. Grandfather of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Nobusuke Kishi, also held the post of Prime Minister in 1960, before the summit with the President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower was prepared to discuss the question of the possibility of consent of Japan to receive from the Soviet Union only 2, not 4 Islands of the South Kuril Islands. It is in the materials that the Japanese foreign Ministry was preparing for the summit and which this week removed a signature stamp " top secret ".
in view of the arguments given the requirement of the Japanese fishermen in case of recognition of the Soviet Union some of the potential opportunities in connection with the Kunashir and Iturup " or provided a guarantee protected fisheries in the area to agree to return Habomai and Shikotan ".
Relations 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. In 1956 the USSR and Japan signed a joint Declaration in which Moscow has agreed to take steps to transfer to Japan the Habomai and Shikotan after the conclusion of a peace Treaty, and the fate of Kunashir and Iturup are not affected. The USSR hoped that the Joint Declaration will put an end to the dispute, Japan believed the document only part of the settlement, without abandoning claims to all the Islands. Subsequent dialogues to nothing brought, peace Treaty at the end of the Second world war and was not signed.
There is personal opinion that serious opposition arose from the US, which frightened that if Japan agrees to transfer only 2 of the 4 Islands, It will affect the process of the return of Okinawa under Japanese sovereignty (Agreement on return of Okinawa to Japan entered into force in 1972). 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 Singapore on 14 November passed soveshanie at the highest level between Vladimir Putin and Shinzo Abe. Following the meeting, the Japanese Prime Minister said that the sides agreed to accelerate negotiations on a peace Treaty on the basis of the 1956 Declaration. Until now the official position of Japan has been demanding the return of the 4 Islands of Kunashir, Iturup, Shikotan, Habomai and only then - the conclusion of a peace Treaty.
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