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Abe laments his failure to achieve optimal results in talks with Russia

Other News Materials 20 February 2019 17:02 (UTC +04:00)
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe believes that history is unlikely to judge him kindly because he has been unable to make any decisive progress in his peace treaty talks with Russia, he said on Wednesday during the budgetary committee debates in the parliament’s lower chamber
Abe laments his failure to achieve optimal results in talks with Russia

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe believes that history is unlikely to judge him kindly because he has been unable to make any decisive progress in his peace treaty talks with Russia, he said on Wednesday during the budgetary committee debates in the parliament’s lower chamber, Trend reports referring to TASS.

"Politicians are constantly wondering how history will assess their efforts. I haven’t had any success in talks with Russia so far. And history is not likely to judge me kindly," he stressed.

Similarly, he reassured the committee that his stance on the peace treaty talks hasn’t changed and remains consistent. "The northern territories (as Tokyo refers to the southern Kuril Islands) are the islands where our country enjoys sovereignty," Abe purported.

Nonetheless, the premier has again refused to declare at the request of an opposition MP that the southern Kuril Islands are "illegally occupied" and are "the ancestral territories" of Japan. However, he emphasized that "many Japanese do believe so."

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