China News Agency, Moscow, June 7 (Reporter Tian Bing) Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zakharova announced on the 7th that Russia will suspend the implementation of the agreement with Japan on cooperation in the field of marine living resources fishing until Japan fulfills all its financial obligations.
According to the news on the website of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the 7th, Zakharova pointed out that Russia has always believed that the bilateral cooperation based on the intergovernmental agreement reached between Russia and Japan in the field of marine biological resources fishing in 1998 is a matter of Russia and Japan. One of the important cooperation directions in the field of fishery.
The agreement is based on taking into account the balance of the interests of the two countries, allowing Japanese fishermen to fish according to quotas in the waters near Russia's southern Kuril Islands (called the four northern islands in Japan).
Sadly, Zakharova said, Tokyo took action to freeze the payments due under the agreement, delaying the signing of the annual implementation document on pro bono technical assistance to Sakhalin, which ensures the validity of the intergovernmental agreement. component.
Zakharova said that in view of the current situation, Russia was forced to decide to suspend the implementation of the above-mentioned bilateral agreement signed in 1998 before Japan fulfilled all its financial obligations.
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