Head of the Russian Foreign Ministry and Japan Sergey Lavrov and Yoshimas Hayashi held telephone negotiations, during which they discussed a peace treaty regarding the ownership of the Kuril Islands. Reports about it TASS.
Parties “confirmed the intention to continue the dialogue” to conclude the world.
Due to the dispute about the belonging of the southern part of Kuril Moscow and Tokyo cannot sign a peace treaty on the results of the Second World War. Japan believes the islands of ITUURUP, Kunashir, Shikotan and a group of Habmioma Islands with its “northern territories”. In turn, Russia does not recognize the fact of the territorial dispute itself.
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