PREPARATION FOR RUSSIAN-CJapanese SUMMIT IN IRKUTSK GOES TO FAR
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TOKYO, 7 March.  / RIA "Nowosti" rIA-"Nowosti"-Korrespondent
Wjatscheslaw Bantin /. the offices with regard to foreign policy of
Russia and Japan agreed to execute on 14 March in Moscow an additional
round of consultations during the preparation on 25 March of the
bilateral summit which is approaching in Irkutsk.  How today Japanese
mass media indicate, it concerns the achievement of the agreement
regarding the agenda of the meeting of the prominent representatives
of the two countries and contents of a common assertion, which they
plan to assume.

These questions had been treated during on 5 March the consultations
on the level of the deputy ministers of foreign affairs of Russia and
Japan, taken place in Tokyo.  How the deputy director/conductor of the
State Department indicated Alexander Losjukow of the RIA " Nowosti "
after the consultations, on it questions had been discussed which can
be begun to cut in the course of the summit.  Among other things, in
which context the Soviet-Japanese common declaration can be begun to
cut from the year 1956 by the top representatives of the two
countries, said it had been treated.

According to specification of the Japanese press the pages could not
agree evenly over this question in Tokyo and decided to execute a new
consultation round in Moscow.

In the common declaration Moscow had ready explained itself as
character of the good will to transfer after the signing of the
bilateral peace treaty Tokyo the islands Shikotan and Habomai - the
smaller part of the Suedkurilen -.  But later to sign in the same year
1956, Tokyo refused, the peace treaty on such conditions and the
simultaneous transfer of all four islands of the Suedkurilen at Japan
required.

Today Tokyo means that the question is " closed " over the islands
Shikotan and Habomai, because around their transfer it goes in the
common declaration.  Now one must speak other islands of the
Suedkurilen - Kunashir and Iturup - at Japan about the transfer only
the two.  In Moscow one judges such Herangehen for illegitimate,
because Tokyo did even without two islands.  In Russia is one the view
that today, 45 years must in detail treat the question about the
acceptance of the common declaration by the pages, Moscow and Tokyo
over it how this document under modern conditions is to be laid out.