Moscow-Sana
The Russian Foreign Ministry announced today that it has suspended talks with Japan on concluding a peace treaty between the two countries due to Tokyo's imposition of unilateral restrictions on Moscow over its own operation in Ukraine.
A ministry statement issued today, according to the Russia Today website, said, "The Russian side has no intention, in the current circumstances, to continue talks with Japan on a peace treaty, given the impossibility of discussing signing a founding document on bilateral relations with a country that stands clearly unfriendly positions and seeks to harm the interests of our country." .
The ministry indicated that Russia had taken a number of retaliatory measures due to the apparent unfriendly nature of the unilateral restrictions imposed by Japan against Russia against the background of the situation in Ukraine. The Russian Kurils, Japan and the 1999 agreement on facilitating the visit of Japanese citizens of former residents of the South Kuril Islands to their former places of residence.
The ministry also announced that it had left the dialogue with Japan on the development of joint economic activities in the South Kuril Islands and its intention to prevent the extension of Japan's status as a partner of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization, stressing that all responsibility for harming bilateral cooperation and Japan's interests itself rests with the official Tokyo, which chose for Consciousness adopting an anti-Russian approach instead of developing mutually beneficial cooperation and good neighborly relations.
Japan had previously imposed several packages of sanctions against Russia after it launched a special military operation in Ukraine on the 24th of last month, which included banning some Japanese exports to Russia and freezing the assets of a number of Russian banks, in addition to imposing personal sanctions against Russian leaders, including President Vladimir Putin and his men. Business.