The Japanese Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, considered today “extremely irrational and totally unacceptable” the decision announced by Russia to suspend the negotiations of a peace treaty as a result of the sanctions imposed by Tokyo after the invasion of Ukraine.
“Russia’s reaction is extremely irrational and totally unacceptable,” Kishida told the Diet Budget Committee (Parliament) after the decision announced late on Monday by Moscow.
For his part, the spokesman minister, Hiokazu Matsuno, explained at a press conference that the Japanese Foreign Ministry had sent a protest to the Russian ambassador to Japan, Mikhail Galuzin.
“The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a unilateral attempt to forcefully change the status quo (of the territory) and is an act that affects the basis of the international order. It is clearly a violation of international law and unacceptable,” Matsuno added.
Sanctions on corporations and individuals
Since the beginning of the Russian intervention in Ukraine, Tokyo has imposed sanctions on a dozen Russian organizations and corporations, in addition to 76 citizens such as President Vladimir Putin, as well as 12 Belarusians, including his counterpart Alexandr Lukashenko.
According to Matsuno, Russia’s decision to stop the peace negotiations “has caused the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, which is now trying to turn it around to condition the relationship with Japan.”
“This measure is extremely unfair, it will never be accepted and represents our strongest protest,” said the spokesman minister, who insisted that for Tokyo there are no changes in the “basic” diplomatic line with Russia, by which Japan seeks to solve the problem. between the two countries before signing a peace treaty.
territorial disputes
Both dispute the sovereignty of the South Kuriles (called Northern Territories in Japan), a group of four islands in the North Pacific that Japan administered and that the Soviet Union invaded just after World War II.
After years of rapprochement, Tokyo and Moscow committed in 2018 to sign the peace treaty, although an amendment to the Russian Constitution would later be approved in 2020 that prevents the transfer of any part of its territory.
The ownership of these islands is the main reason why both countries have not yet signed peace after the end of World War II in 1945. EFE
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