“At the Japanese-Russian negotiations on the territorial issue, Russia rejected the idea of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to transfer the two islands. As a result, we were faced with the fact that Japan made concessions, putting aside its past diplomatic position with a demand for the transfer of the four islands, ”TASS quoted him as saying.
Shi declared the injustice of the San Francisco Peace Treaty concluded after World War II, according to which Japan refused claims to the Kuril Islands.
"It is necessary to correct this injustice and annul the peace treaty that recognizes the rejection of the Tishima archipelago (the Japanese name for the Kuril archipelago. - RT )," he said.
The politician believes that Japan will be able to return the islands of the southern Kuril Islands, "if negotiations are started from the position that the entire archipelago, including its northern part, is Japanese territory."
In November, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov said that Moscow and Tokyo maintain fundamental differences on the conclusion of a peace treaty, which complicates the progress of negotiations.