Can’t keep 2¢ to self? US claims it’s ‘wrong time’ for long-awaited Russia-Japan peace treaty talks
Can’t keep 2¢ to self? US claims it’s ‘wrong time’ for long-awaited Russia-Japan peace treaty talks
Published time: 10 Oct, 2015 00:05
“Again, we still maintain that, broadly speaking, it’s not time for business as usual with Russia on Ukraine,” Kirby said when addressed the issue during a daily briefing by the State Department on Thursday.
The fact that Russian airstrikes against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) are now making headlines “doesn’t mean we’ve turned a blind eye to Ukraine and to what Russia continues to do there,” he stressed.
However, the spokesman acknowledged that “there seems to be some efforts in the right direction here on Minsk [peace treaty] by both sides, and we want to encourage that.”
The verbal intervention comes despite the fighting has practically stopped in eastern Ukraine in recent weeks, following more than a year of a bloody conflict between Kiev forces and rebels demanding self-governance, in which nearly 8,000 people died.
READ MORE: Tanks withdrawing from contact line in Lugansk People’s Republic
Kirby refused to get into the specifics of the Russia-Japanese talks, calling them “sovereign discussions” and advising journalist to address Tokyo for further details.
Earlier on Thursday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Moscow and Tokyo have agreed to continue contacts on the issue of the peace treaty, which the two countries never signed after the end of World War II.
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida visited Moscow in September to discuss bilateral relations.
READ MORE: Tokyo wants ‘new level’ in relations with Moscow – PM Abe
The southern Kuril Islands remain the main obstacle to signing the peace treaty, as Japan doesn’t agree with the decision taken by Soviet, US and UK leaders to hand all of the Kuril Islands over to the USSR after World War II.
Tokyo claims the islands of Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan and Habomai, calling them Japan’s “Northern Territories.”
READ MORE: Moscow officials ‘have always and will continue to’ visit Russian Kuril Islands – PM
Tags: Isis, Islamic State, Japan, Russia, Russia-Japan peace treaty, Syria, Ukraine
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WarSclerotic 
October 10, 2015 at 4:36 AM
if the russians and japanese reach a mutually satisfactory conclusion; that will be ANOTHER important relationship with ANOTHER long time US ally lost during the epically abysmal tenure of this RIDICULOUS CLOWN of a so-called, “President”.
The ignorance, the wilfull neglect, embedded within American Liberalism has emasculated every aspect of America’s former greatness.
The “TOOL”, President and his, “Tool” voters drift along, whimsically, oblivious to the destruction of American sovereignty, wealth, power, and ultimately (perhaps, America’s existence, itself), wrought by this
sorry-assed administration/
October 10, 2015 at 5:17 AM
The “destruction of American sovereignty,wealth,power,and ultimately ( perhaps,America’s existence,itself),wrought by this sorry-assed administration”, did not begin with this current administration.The destructive process started with the Bush senior administration followed by the subsequent administrations irrespective of political party.
Of course the electorate undoubtedly have responsibility because of their selection of these presidents.But I would also add to the list the military leadership, the Congress, and the intelligence agencies.They are all beholden to someone or somebodies.The worse enemy the USA has today is the rot that has set from within its institutions that has culminated in the possible loss of the attributes I have quoted from you above.
October 10, 2015 at 12:28 PM
Carlos,
no, it comes from much earlier than Bush’s years in the White House.
Probably from the 60’s.
Here are three quotes from one of the guys that has had REAL power.
You probably know who he is:
“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years……It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.”
“For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure–one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
“The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.”
Just in case you don’t know, all these was said by David Rockefeller.
Buy and read his Memoirs for more.
It’s a very eye-opening book.
October 10, 2015 at 12:45 PM
correct, the stage is set a long tine ago .
October 10, 2015 at 1:43 PM
I’ve heard before about the CFR, and the TLC. The malfeasances identified with them may be justifiably attributable. I really don’t know. Would David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, and the others who’ve sat around the conference table with them have given nukes to Iran? Would they have instigated the Arab Spring? Would they have created Jihadi no-go zones throughout the non-Islamic world? I’m inclined to believe that those, and other, “projects” are unique to a different genre of social engineering! In the end, it doesn’t matter if I’m wrong, or right. The world has been turned on it’s head, “Humpty dumpty has had a great fall”. All the King’s horses and all the kings men may try to reconstruct Humpty. I don’t know if they can. Thank you for indulging me.
October 10, 2015 at 2:08 PM
Yes irab,
the world has been turned on its head.
Get ready for a rough ride before we start seeing (pretty shortly imo) a new world order being implemented.
October 10, 2015 at 3:30 PM
I believe so also, but not sure about the outcome , but it goes faster and faster .
October 10, 2015 at 4:50 PM
#StopTTIP: Hundreds of thousands protest trade deal with US in Berlin
https://www.rt.com/news/318199-berlin-ttip-protest-rally/
October 10, 2015 at 5:09 PM
I can perfectly understand why.
October 10, 2015 at 5:15 PM
Because there is so more info about Europe and what is going on in German than in English .
http://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/ex-neukoelln-buergermeister-alarmiert-heinz-buschkowsky-warnt-vor-fluechtlings-gettos_id_5004332.html
http://info.kopp-verlag.de/index.html