Dmitry Peskov
The deployment of missile complexes “Bastion” and “Ball” on the Kuril Islands is justified and should not affect Russian-Japanese relations. On Wednesday, November 23, said press Secretary of Russian President Dmitry Peskov, reports TASS.
Answering the journalists ‘ question about the missile deployment, the Kremlin’s spokesman said: “of Course, it has its justification”. To learn more, he recommended that the Ministry of defence.
“However, from our point of view, of course, this should not affect the rapid trends that currently exist in our bilateral relationship with Tokyo,” — said Peskov. According to him, this applies both to the preparation of the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Japan, and negotiations on the issue of a peace Treaty between the two countries.
Missile systems were stationed in the Kuril Islands on November 22. “Bastion” on duty on the island of Iturup, Bal — on Kunashir.
In 1956, Moscow and Tokyo signed a Declaration ending the war, which can only enter into force after the conclusion of a peace Treaty. The document is still not signed due to a territorial dispute over the southern Kuril Islands. Japan claims the Islands of Shikotan, Habomai, Iturup and Kunashir, arguing that the Treaty of 1855. The Russian side insists that these territories became Soviet after the Second world war.