Sled dog team on Kunashir Island. File photoYUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, February 9The Mayor of Kurilsk, Vadim Rokotov, after the statement of the American Ambassador to Japan Rama Emanuel about the ownership of the Kuril Islands, recalled the non-acceptance of the alienation of Russian territories prescribed in the constitution. Earlier, the US Ambassador to Japan reiterated the unity of the position of Washington and Tokyo regarding the territorial ownership of the southern Kuril Islands. The governor of the Sakhalin region, Valery Limarenko, called Emanuel's statement absolutely incorrect and unacceptable for a diplomatic worker. The Russian Foreign Ministry advised the US ambassador to Japan to devote more time to informing the Japanese public about the US role in the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, noted that Japan is artificially whipping up hysteria around the territorial issue of belonging to the Kuriles.Trutnev: The Kuril Islands will not be leased «Japan does not stop demonstrating claims to Russian territories — the Kuril Islands. I would like to recall the results of the Second World War and the inadmissibility of their arbitrary interpretations. The Russians unanimously supported the amendments to our constitution, which speak of the inadmissibility of alienation territories,” Rokotov was quoted by RIA Novosti in the press service of the administration of the Kuril region. It is noted that the inhabitants of the Kuril Islands are proud of their land and urge the Japanese to respect the lessons of the Second World War. Shimodsky Treaty of 1855, according to which Japan ceded Kunashir, Shikotan, Iturup and Habomai — the islands, the return of which she demands from Russia in the post-war period. 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 renouncing claims to all the islands. Subsequent negotiations came to nothing. Moscow's position is that the islands became part of the USSR at the end of World War II and the sovereignty of the Russian Federation over them is beyond doubt. , 09:59InfographicThe Kuril issue: how the ownership of the disputed islands has changed
