Tokyo’s “unfriendly stance” in direction of Moscow makes discussions not possible, Nikolay Nozdrev has mentioned
Moscow can not interact in talks with Tokyo on a proper peace treaty so long as the Japanese authorities follows the West’s course geared toward hurting Russia’s safety and financial system, the nation’s ambassador to Japan, Nikolay Nozdrev, has mentioned.
The 2 nations failed to achieve a remaining settlement following the tip of World Struggle II and have made little progress during the last eight a long time. A serious stumbling block is Japan’s declare to 4 islands within the Kuril Archipelago, which the Soviet Union captured in the course of the warfare. Within the San Francisco Treaty of 1951, Tokyo confirmed that it had no aspirations within the Kurils, however later said that the islands in query weren’t a part of the archipelago. Russia maintains that the 4 islands are an integral a part of its territory.
On Friday, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba mentioned his authorities would “firmly preserve” the coverage of resolving the Kurils difficulty and “concluding a peace treaty” with Moscow. It’s “regrettable” that the 2 sides haven’t been in a position to attain an settlement after so a few years, he mentioned. Nonetheless, the PM acknowledged that there was at the moment “a tough state of affairs” in relations between Japan and Russia because of the Ukraine battle.
When requested for remark by Izvestia later within the day, Nozdrev replied that Russia views “such statements from the prime minister and different politicians as unrealistic.”
“Again in March 2022, we formally introduced that, given Tokyo’s unfriendly stance, we couldn’t conduct the negotiations on the peace treaty,” he recalled.
Japan has absolutely backed the West’s sanctions coverage in direction of Russia, imposing 25 rounds of “unlawful” restrictions on the nation for the reason that escalation between Moscow and Kiev three years in the past, together with the newest bundle in mid-January, the ambassador defined.
Tokyo has additionally carried out “a Russophobic marketing campaign” supported by the nation’s media, which is “tirelessly replicating tales filled with anti-Russian narratives,” he added.
Nozdrev accused the Japanese authorities of being inconsistent, saying that whereas “talking about their want to proceed some form of dialogue on the peace treaty… they, on the identical time, are disseminating anti-Russian statements, threatening with sanctions.”
“There’s a dualism of approaches. It appears to me that nobody in Japan itself clearly understands how these two issues can coexist,” he harassed.
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