As a result of negotiations on a peace treaty with the Russian Federation, the Land of the Rising Sun expects to gain sovereignty over the two islands of the Kuril Ridge.. Such a statement was made by the Secretary General of the Japanese Government Yoshihide Suga. Thus, he commented on yesterday’s statement by Vladimir Putin about the fate of the peace treaty. According to Sugi, in the Soviet-Japanese agreement of 1956.

talked about the transfer of Tokyo two islands. The President of the Russian Federation said yesterday that the agreement did not indicate which country would receive sovereignty over them. But Japan expects that its sovereignty will extend to Habomai and Shikotan. According to Sugi, at a meeting in Singapore, Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shared "a common desire, without shifting (the problem) to subsequent generations, to put an end to it with their own hands.". "It was agreed that, on the basis of the Joint Soviet-Japanese Declaration, to speed up negotiations on the conclusion of a peace treaty. To do this, before meeting Putin in Japan at the G20 summit in June, Prime Minister Abe will visit Russia at the beginning of the year. This was announced. At the moment, I can only say this ", - quotes the words of Sugi RIA" Novosti ". The official refused to specify further.. In particular, he did not answer the questions about when the framework agreement will be concluded and whether military bases will be located on the islands. Meanwhile, the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun reported that Abe swore to Putin that in the event of the transfer of new territories to Japan, American military bases would never be placed on them.. This possibility was not previously excluded by the Japanese government.. But now Tokyo decided to make concessions in order to speed up the process.. After in 2016. Secretary-General of the National Security Council of Japan Setaro Yati did not rule out the appearance of American soldiers on the islands, this issue seriously complicated the negotiation process on signing a peace treaty. Since then, the Japanese prime minister at meetings with the Russian president has repeatedly made promises not to allow American soldiers on the Kuril Islands, the Free Press reports.. Japan claims the four southern islands of the Kuril chain - Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan and Habomai, referring to the Treatise on Trade and the Borders of 1855. Russia's position is that the Southern Kuriles became part of the USSR following the results of the Second World War, and our sovereignty over them, having an international legal framework, cannot be doubted.

On November 14 at a meeting in Singapore, the leaders of Russia and Japan agreed to resume dialogue on a peace treaty on the basis of the 1956 Soviet-Japanese Joint Declaration.. which is recognized by both countries. It states that after the conclusion of a peace treaty, Japan will be transferred to Habomai and Shikotan. However, according to Putin, the document does not spell out the mechanism and grounds for the transfer, and therefore the contract needs to be clarified and elaborated..