In Japan, proposed to request the "return" of the Kuril Islands
Tokyo in the negotiations with Moscow, obliged to represent the position that the entire Kuril archipelago " is a Japanese territory ". About It in interview to the newspaper "Yomiuri" said the head of the opposition Communist party of Japan Kazuo Seay.
Politician calls "unfair" the San Francisco peace Treaty concluded after World war II, as it is, Japan is not wanted claims to the Kuril Islands.
Kazuo Sii believes that the country can " get " the Islands of the southern Kuril ridge, if you start to claim as well on the Northern part of the archipelago.
"ought to correct this injustice and cancel the peace Treaty, which recognizes the rejection of the archipelago (Kuril archipelago - Approx. Ed.) "- said the Politician.
Japan claims the southern Kurile 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.
Subsequent dialogues to nothing brought, peace Treaty at the end of the Second World war and was not signed. 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.
the results of the meeting of leaders of Russia and Japan in Singapore on 14 November 2018, the Japanese Prime Minister said that the sides agreed to accelerate negotiations on a peace Treaty on the basis of mutual Declaration of 1956. This was an important concession from Japan, because up until now, its official position was to demand the transfer of Kunashir, Iturup, Shikotan and Habomai, and only then, is the conclusion of a peace Treaty.
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