Fishermen catch salmon off the coast of Okhotsk Kunashir Island. File photoTOKYO, Jun 8Japan regrets Russia's suspension of the fisheries agreement, Hirokazu Matsuno, Secretary General of the Government, said at a press conference in Tokyo. in Japan they are called Kunashir, Shikotan, Iturup and Habomai) as if (providing technical assistance to Sakhalin) is a precondition for this. The Russian side, putting forward the issue of business cooperation with the Sakhalin region as a reason, unilaterally stopped the agreement. unilaterally to stop the agreement is regrettable. We intend to continue discussions with the Russian side in order to continue activities based on the agreement,» Matsuno said. jpg» />Fishing in Croatia has become profitable due to fuel prices On the eve of the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that Moscow «invariably considered interaction on the basis of an agreement between the government of the Russian Federation and the government of Japan on certain issues of cooperation in the field of fishing for marine living resources in 1998 as one of the important areas of Russian- Japanese relations in the field of fisheries. However, according to her, Tokyo took the line of «freezing» the payments due under the agreement, «delaying the signing of the annual executive document on the provision of gratuitous technical assistance to the Sakhalin Region, which is an integral element in ensuring the functioning of this intergovernmental agreement.» In this regard, the Russian side «decided to suspend the implementation of the 1998 agreement until the Japanese side fulfilled all its financial obligations.»
