Fumio KishidaTOKYO, Jan 19 plenary session of the Japanese Parliament, reiterated its intention to continue dialogue with Russia in order to resolve the territorial issue and conclude a peace treaty, without shifting the settlement of this problem onto the shoulders of future generations. «As for relations with Russia, I intend to confidently continue to engage in dialogue on based on previous agreements, including the 2018 Singapore agreement, in order to resolve the territorial problem and conclude a peace treaty without shifting the burden of resolving the problem onto the shoulders of future generations,» the head of the Japanese government emphasized.
Lavrov announced his visit to JapanThe broadcast was conducted by NHK TV channel.Japan claims the islands of Kunashir, Shikotan, It urup and Habomai, referring to the bilateral Treatise on Commerce and Frontiers of 1855. Tokyo set the return of the islands as a condition for concluding a peace treaty with the Russian Federation, which was never signed at the end of World War II. In 1956, the USSR and Japan signed a joint declaration in which Moscow agreed to consider the possibility of transferring two islands to Japan in the event of a peace treaty. The USSR hoped to put an end to this, while Japan considered the deal only part of the solution to the problem, without giving up its claims to all the islands. Subsequent negotiations came to nothing. Moscow's position is that the islands became part of the USSR following World War II and the sovereignty of the Russian Federation over them is beyond doubt.
