The Russian Foreign Ministry named the condition for solving the territorial problem with Japan: Politics: World: Lenta.ru

Solving the territorial problem Japan there can only be international legal recognition of the existing borders with Russia. This is how an official representative responded to the words of Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharovaher comment published on website departments.

“We proceed from the fact that the “solution to the territorial problem” mentioned by the Prime Minister of Japan can only mean the international legal formalization of the de facto existing border with our country,” the diplomat emphasized.

The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry added that Moscow has repeatedly pointed out the impossibility of a full-fledged dialogue with Tokyo without the Japanese side abandoning its hostile course towards Russia.

Previously, the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov statedthat it is Japan’s unfriendly actions and its participation in anti-Russian sanctions that are preventing the conclusion of a peace treaty. He noted that the problem of the peace treaty is a very complex issue in bilateral relations, but Moscow and Tokyo found the strength and political wisdom to engage in dialogue and negotiations in search of solutions.