China News Service, March 22 (Xinhua) Comprehensive report. On the 21st local time, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that due to Japan's unfriendly behavior on the situation in Ukraine, Russia refused to continue negotiations with Japan on the issue of a peace treaty.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on the 22nd that he thought it was extremely inappropriate and absolutely unacceptable, and expressed strong protest.

Data map: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

  The Russian Satellite News Agency reported that the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a message saying, “The Russian side has no intention to continue negotiations with Japan on the issue of a peace treaty under the current circumstances, because (Russia) cannot be with a country that openly takes an unfriendly stance and tries to harm our country’s interests. , to discuss the issue of signing the basic documents of bilateral relations."

  The report pointed out that the measure was taken because Japan unilaterally imposed restrictions on Russia over the situation in Ukraine.

  In addition, Russia has also withdrawn from exchanges with Japan on joint economic activities in the South Kuril Islands (the disputed islands between Japan and Russia, which Japan calls the "four northern islands").

The Russian Foreign Ministry stressed that the responsibility for all these disruptions to Russia-Japan cooperation rests with Tokyo.

  Russia and Japan have been unable to sign a peace treaty since the end of World War II.

Based on the bilateral trade boundary treaty signed by Russia and Japan in 1855, Japan demanded the return of the four disputed islands between Japan and Russia, and made the return of the islands as a condition of signing a peace treaty with Russia.

Moscow believes that Russia has indisputable sovereignty over it.

  Russian President Vladimir Putin and then Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met in Singapore in November 2018 and agreed to speed up the peace treaty negotiation process on the basis of the 1956 Soviet-Japanese Joint Declaration.