CONSULTATIONS A TOKYO ENTERS THE REPRESENTANTS OF THE MINISTRIES
RUSSIAN AND JAPANESE OF BUSINESSES ETRANGERES








TOKYO, March 5.  (Corr. Ria " Novosti " Viatcheslav Bantine).  The
consultations of the vice-ministers Russian and Japanese for the
Businesses etrangeres concerning the preparation of a node
Russo-Japanese which will have to take place on March 25 has Irkoutsk
have starts today has Tokyo.

The accent has these consultations will be gate on the contents of
communicates joint which will have to be adopts has the exit of the
node has Irkoutsk by Russian president Vladimir Poutine and Japanese
the Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori.

Japan is represente has these consultations by the vice-minister for
the Businesses etrangeres Riodzo Kato, Russia by the vice-minister for
the Businesses etrangeres Alexandre Lossioukov.

According to informees sources, the approach of the joint Declaration
sovieto-Japanese woman of 1956 will be in the center of attention has
these consultations.  In this document, Moscow had expresses, as a
sign of goodwill, its intention to restore in Japan, after the
signature of the draft of peace bilateral, the islands of Chikotan and
Khabomai forming part of Kouriles of the South.  Japan insists as of
the end of the Second world war on the handing-over of these islands
has its jurisdiction.  However, later, always in 1956, Tokyo had
refuses to sign treats it peace has these conditions, requiring the
restitution in Japan of all the four islands of Kouriles of the South.


Tokyo estimates now that the problem of Chikotan and Khabomai is "
resolu " because their restitution appears in the joint Declaration
and that it would now be necessary to speak about making in Japan of
the two other islands of Kouriles of the South:  Chikotan and
Itouroup.

Moscow considere that this approach is not fondee bus Tokyo had gives
up itself has these two islands.  Russia estimates that in 45 years
after the signature by the two parts of the joint declaration, Moscow
and Tokyo should examine in the detail the way of interpreter this
document in the current context.