Russia’s foreign ministry announced today the suspension of an agreement with Japan that allowed Japanese fishermen to fish near the disputed southern Kuril Islands, claiming that Tokyo had not paid the payments stipulated in the agreement.
“In the current situation, we are forced to suspend the implementation of the 1998 Agreement until the Japanese side fulfills all its financial obligations,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement.
A territorial dispute over the islands, known in Russia as the Kuriles and in Japan as the Northern Territories, dates back to the end of World War II when Soviet troops occupied Japan.
The dispute has prevented the two countries from signing a formal peace treaty.
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