Russia, Japan agree on island dispute solution by year-end
2016-09-03 09:20:49 source：Global Times
September 3, 2016
"Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
on Friday agreed to draw up proposals this year to end a row that has
bedeviled their relationship for 70 years over a group of islands that
lie between the two countries.
The dispute stems from the Soviet
Union's decision, in the final days of World War II, to seize the
islands, known in Japan as the Northern Territories and in Russia as the
Southern Kuriles, that Tokyo says are its sovereign territory.
Meeting
on the sidelines of a business forum on Russia's Pacific coast, the two
leaders agreed that officials on both sides would keep working on a
draft deal that Abe and Putin would consider when the Russian leader
visits Japan in December."
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