“Russia has no intention, under the current circumstances, to continue negotiations with Japan on a peace treaty,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The Ministry considered that it is “impossible to speak of the signing of a fundamental document on bilateral relations with a State that has an openly unfriendly position and seeks to harm the interests” of Russia.
Japan and Russia have had complex relations for decades. After World War II, they did not sign a peace treaty due to a dispute over four small islands in the Kuril archipelago.
These islands were occupied by the Soviet army in the last days of the conflict and since then, they have not been returned to Japan, which calls them the “Northern Territories”.
Although there have been attempts at negotiation since the fall of the USSR, they have never been successful.
Japan has joined Western countries in recent weeks in imposing heavy economic sanctions on Moscow for its offensive in Ukraine launched on February 24.
Source: Ambito
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