Japan hopes to resolve the issue with Putin Kuril Islands

Japan decided to resume negotiations with Russia about the possibility of solving the territorial dispute over the Kurile Islands. Tokyo is based on Soviet-Japanese Joint Declaration in 1956. Then in Moscow have expressed readiness to transfer two Kuril Islands of Japan in exchange for signing a peace treaty between the countries.

This is the island of Shikotan and Habomai, according to the Declaration of 1956, they could pass Japan as a sign of good will in the event that the country would stop the state of war.

 

In 2001, Vladimir Putin, then Russian president, and former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori has confirmed that this declaration is not repealed, but no concrete agreements between the leaders of the states had been reached.

After Putin won the presidential election, Tokyo has decided to once again begin to discuss a possible settlement of the dispute, although previously Japanese authorities called this version of "unacceptable". Vladimir Putin himself declared that the territorial dispute with Japan to find "acceptable compromise".

Japanese Prime Minister plans to send to Moscow in the near future, Yoshiro Mori. If this meeting takes place, then, on a plan of Tokyo, it will be the main preparatory step to possible talks between Prime Minister Nori and the Russian president during the upcoming summit of the "Big Eight", scheduled for May 18-19 at Camp David.