An agreement to this effect was reached at a meeting of the two countries’ foreign ministers, Sergei Lavrov of Russia and Fumio Kishida of Japan, in Moscow on September 21.
In April 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed to give a fresh impetus to the work on the peace treaty and said they had given relevant instructions to their foreign ministries. The previous round of talks between the two countries’ deputy foreign ministers took place in January 2014. Russia was represented by Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov and Japan - by his counterpart Shinsuke Sugiyama. Since that date, another round of consultations was postponed several times, as Moscow said, by the Japanese side.
Lavrov said earlier differences in the two countries’ positions on that matter were "still big." At the same time, he stressed that both Moscow and Tokyo were determined to "look for solutions that would be acceptable and supported by the peoples of our countries." He said that "Russia’s approaches are based on all agreements reached until now and are unchanged."
"Thus, we reminded that progress on that matter can be reached only after we have clarity about Japan’s recognition of the post-war historic realities, including the United Nations Charter as it is," the Russian top diplomat said. "It is the historic aspect of this problem we have inherited from the World War II that is the most serious obstacle on the path of its settlement. Recognizing the existence of the range of problems in our relations, moving along the path of their settlement, we must not let the interests of our nations be hostages to any of these problems."...
[tass.ru]
8/10/15
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