The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, said that the Japanese authorities should learn that Iturup Island, which is located in the southern group of the Greater Kuril Islands, belongs to Russian territory. So in you telegraph channel The vice-president of the Russian government reacted to the protest in Tokyo due to the trip of Yuri Trutnev, the presidential envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District, to the region.
“Japan protested against Russia in connection with Yury Trutnev’s visit to Iturup Island. Our man. Time to learn, ”wrote Zakharova.
The Kuril Islands have long been the subject of disputes between Russia and Japan. The region can be considered as the main obstacle to the conclusion of a peace treaty between the two states after the consequences of the Second World War. Japan claims the islands of Kunashir, Shikotan, Iturup, and Habomai. In Tokyo, they refer to the 1855 Bilateral Treatise on Trade and Borders, according to which the then Russian Empire ceded parts of the southern Kuril Islands to the Japanese side. In contrast, Moscow insists that the southern part of the Kuril Islands is part of the USSR, whose successor was Russia after the consequences of the Second World War, so Russia’s sovereignty over them is beyond doubt.
Earlier Japanese criticized The Ministry of Foreign Affairs for words on the “invasion” of the Kurils.