WorldRussia rejects Japan’s sovereignty claims over Southern Kuril Islands

Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said the Southern Kuril Islands will remain Russian territory and dismissed Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s claim that they are inherently Japanese. Takaichi had protested Vladimir Putin’s visit to a disputed island. Competing claims over four Pacific islands have kept Moscow and Tokyo from signing a postwar peace treaty.

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