MOSCOW, Feb 8Japan is artificially whipping up hysteria around the territorial issue of belonging to the Kuril Islands, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. «Look at all our statements about artificially whipping up hysteria, tensions around the territorial issue. be given to building normal, full-fledged, economic, financial, cultural ties with our country, devotes all this energy and passion to obsession with this topic. Each time we noted the artificial nature of this problem and its escalation,» Zakharova said on the air of the Youtube channel «Soloviev Live». «And this artificiality does not just appear out of nowhere. It is fueled. By whom? A certain part of the political establishment of Japan. Who is behind it? Well, now the US ambassador has spoken in full growth and announced this. Have we had Doubts about this? Yes, there have never been any, «added Zakharova. She stressed that the school And it is beneficial «to keep this issue afloat, because it does not allow the Japanese side to start implementing full-scale, mutually beneficial and promising cooperation with our country.» «/>Yesterday, 09:59 Infographic Kuril issue: how the ownership of the disputed islands has changed. Earlier, US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel reiterated the unity of the position of Washington and Tokyo regarding the territorial ownership of the southern Kuril Islands. 1855, according to which Japan ceded Kunashir, Shikotan, Iturup and Habomai — the islands, the return of which it demands from Russia in the post-war period. Earlier on Monday, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, speaking at a nationwide rally for the return of the islands, said he intended to continue persistent negotiations with Russia with the aim of concluding a peace treaty on the basis of previous agreements. In turn, Secretary General of the Japanese Cabinet Hirokazu Matsuno stressed that the subject of negotiations for Tokyo is the ownership of all four islands.Yesterday, 14:11 The US Ambassador in Tokyo supported Japan in the issue of ownership of the South KurilesRelations between Russia and Japan have been overshadowed by the absence of a peace treaty for many years. In 1956, the USSR and Japan signed a Joint Declaration, in which Moscow agreed to consider the possibility of transferring Habomai and Shikotan to Japan after the conclusion of a peace treaty, and the fate of Kunashir and Iturup was not affected. The USSR hoped that the Joint Declaration would put an end to the dispute, while Japan considered the document only part of the solution to the problem, without abandoning claims to all the islands. Subsequent negotiations led to nothing, the peace treaty at the end of World War II was never signed. There is a point of view that serious opposition arose from the United States, which threatened that if Japan agreed to the transfer of only two of the four islands to it, this would affect the process of returning Okinawa to Japanese sovereignty (The Agreement on the Return of Okinawa to Japan entered into force in 1972) . Moscow's position is that the islands became part of the USSR following the Second World War and the sovereignty of the Russian Federation over them is beyond doubt. In 2018, in Singapore, following a summit meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Shinzo Abe, the Japanese Prime Minister stated that the parties agreed to speed up the negotiation process on a peace treaty on the basis of the Joint Soviet-Japanese Declaration of 1956. This was a serious concession on the part of Japan, since until now its official position was to demand the return of the four islands, and only after that — the conclusion of a peace treaty. />Yesterday, 18:30 It is said on the airExpert: a new element appeared in the US statement on the Kuriles
