Japan was reminded that the Kuril train left in 1960
Trying to achieve the transfer of part of the Kuril Islands to the control of Tokyo, the Japanese refer to a document that ceased to be in force in Soviet times.
Nikolai Platoshkin, head of the department of international relations and diplomacy at the Moscow Humanitarian University, said this on the air of the Independent Studio, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to him, the 1956 declaration, according to which the USSR was supposed to transfer two islands to Japan as a gesture of goodwill, has long been terminated.
“...It is written that the USSR, in good faith, is ready to cede to Japan the two smallest islands of these four. But the declaration was canceled by the Soviet Union in January 60 after Japan entered into an agreement with the United States, according to which 60 thousand American soldiers and officers are still in Japan.
Then it made sense - if you remove American troops, declare neutrality, then in good faith... The Japanese seemed to want to, but the Americans: “Are you crazy or something,” so the declaration is dead, it was canceled by both sides in 60 -th year.
I don’t understand why Mr. Lavrov is now referring to this 1956 declaration? Or maybe refer to the label of the Great Khan Tokhtamysh to Dmitry Donskoy from 1382? Why refer to dead documents? Therefore, our public is rightly indignant,” Platoshkin said.
The diplomat also called “joint activities” with the Japanese in the Kuril Islands unacceptable.
“I believe that any negotiations with the Japanese on territories should be stopped by us. There is nothing to discuss with them. There can be no joint economic management with the Japanese in these territories until they renounce their claims to our land. That’s it - if they have some kind of territorial problem, let them put up a mirror and discuss it with themselves,” Platoshkin said.
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