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Kurile Islands - 1990
Kurile Islands - 1990
Jacek Pałkiewicz2006-06-17 15:59:04
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the treaty draft, so that Soviet sovereignty over these areas would be recognized, but it was not accepted by the conference, and was not included in the San Francisco Peace Treaty. For this and other reasons, the Soviet Union did not sign the treaty. The San Francisco Peace Treaty expressly stipulates that the treaty shall not confer any benefits on any non-signatory reportedly.
Since the Soviet Union did not sign the San Francisco Peace Treaty, Japan and the Soviet Union negotiated for the conclusion of a separate peace treaty between June 1955 and October 1956. During these negotiations, Japan reportedly claimed territorial rights to Etorofu, Kunashir, Shikotan, and Habomai, and demanded the return of these islands, but the position maintained by the Soviet Union was that they would return Shikotan and Habomai, but could not return Etorofu and Kunashir. Thus, the negotiations did not reach a conclusion.
Consequently, in place of a peace treaty, the Japan-Soviet Joint Declaration was concluded which is a treaty providing for the termination of the state of war and the resumption of diplomatic relations. This treaty stipulates in Article 9 that after diplomatic relations have been established, the peace treaty negotiations shall be continued and the Soviet Union shall hand over the Habomai and Shikotan Islands to Japan after the conclusion of a peace treaty, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.
n principle, the issue of Habomai and Shikotan Islands has already been resolved by this Declaration. Thus, it is considered that only the question of Etorofu and Kunashir Islands remain as an issue to be resolved in the peace treaty negotiations.
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Japan and the Soviet Union continued intermittent peace treaty negotiations after the conclusion of the Declaration, but no substantive results were achieved. One particular reason for this was that under the Soviet totalitarian regime, the
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