Search: Russia,Kuril Islands (12 materials)

 

Towards The Arctic Ocean through the Kuril Islands

... offering Japan some new bargaining chips. Photo: rusk.ru Russian-Japanese relations, Japan, 2009 The proposals should offer Japan strategic advantages that could potentially outweigh any desire in Tokyo to insist on its sovereignty over the Southern Kuril Islands. The Russian Arctic seas could be one common denominator to be introduced in the discourse of the Russian-Japanese negotiations. The Arctic region is undoubtedly a long-term strategic priority for Japanese foreign policy. Developing Arctic resources could ...

15.04.2013

In Search of a Japanese Deng Xiaoping

... impossibility of bridging the gap between the parties on the territorial issue under current conditions, and propose a kind of gentlemen’s agreement on the following conditions: Russia would complete a radical demilitarisation of the Southern Kuril Islands, and top Russian officials would refrain from visiting the islands, whereas the Japanese government will cease any actions that increased interest in the “northern territories” (public pronouncements by public officials which might unleash passions ...

09.04.2013
 

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