REPRESENTATIVES OF RUSSIA AND JAPAN TREATED QUESTIONS OF THE
FORTHCOMING SUMMIT








TOKYO, 5 March.  / RIA "Nowosti" rIA-"Nowosti"-Korrespondent
Wjatscheslaw Bantin /. with the Russian-Japanese consultations on the
level of the deputy ministers of foreign affairs of the two countries,
taken place in Tokyo, had been treated among other things the
question, in who context in the course of the bilateral summit on 25
March in Irkutsk the Soviet-Japanese common assertion can be begun to
cut from the year 1956.  That indicated the deputy minister of foreign
affairs of Russia Alexander Losjukow in its RIA "Nowosti" interview.


In the common assertion from the year 1956 Moscow had ready explained
itself as character of the good will to transfer Japan two of four
islands of the Suedkurilen after the signing of the peace treaty.  In
the future Japan refused signing the present Treaty on such conditions
and required the transfer of all four islands.

Alexander Losjukow indicated that during the consultations questions,
which can be begun to cut on the summit as well as the pattern of the
execution of the meeting of the prominent representatives of the two
countries had been treated.

The Japanese page, said the deputy minister of foreign affairs of
Russia, assumes this meeting will take place, and that one must
prepare for it actively.  We agree with such Herangehen, stressed
Losjukow.