“The question of the territorial affiliation of the islands at the moment for the Russian Federation is in no way in any way questioned,” Interfax quoted Zakharova as saying.
She also said that the department was surprised by Tokyo’s decision not to hold a joint press conference on the results of the bilateral talks scheduled for January 14 in Moscow.
On January 14, Russian and Japanese foreign ministers Sergei Lavrov and Taro Kono will hold talks on the conclusion of a peace treaty between the states.
Viktor Kuzminkov, senior researcher at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in an interview with NSN, appreciated the possibility of signing the agreement.