Japan’s new prime minister conditions peace with Russia on Kuril issue

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In outlining the guidelines for his future policy in a speech to the lower house of the National Diet (parliament), Kishida made it clear that “there will be no peace treaty with Russia without solving the issue of the Northern territories”, a name that It is used in Japan for four islands in the southern Kuril archipelago. “My intention is to continue working on the set of relations, including the signing of a peace treaty,” said the president of the Liberal Democratic Party and, since Monday, Prime Minister of Japan. On October 7, Kishida declared that he had agreed in a telephone conversation with the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, that the two parties will try to move forward with negotiations with a view to signing a peace agreement.For decades, Tokyo has conditioned this matter, pending since 1945, on the recovery of four islands of the Kuril archipelago: Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan and Habomai. Japan is protected by the Bilateral Trade and Border Treaty that it signed with Russia on February 7, 1855. Moscow, in turn, emphasizes that these territories were transferred to the Soviet Union by international agreements at the end of World War II and that Russia assumed its sovereignty as the legal successor of the USSR.

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