Japan’s protest was caused by the decision of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation on the Japanese NGO
Japan has protested to Russia because the Russian Federation Prosecutor General’s Office has recognized the NGO organization “Union of Residents of the Islands of Chisima and Habomai” as undesirable, Hirokazu Matsuno said , Secretary General of the Government. from Japan.
At a press conference in Tokyo, he described the NGO as “an organization of former inhabitants of the northern islands (as the southern Kuriles are called in Japan) and their descendants, who advocated the signing of a peace treaty between the two states.
According to Matsuno, what the Russian side insists on is one-sided and does not correspond to the real situation.
The former residents, as noted by a government spokesperson, want “the territorial problem to be resolved at least a day earlier” and to be able to visit the graves.
On Friday, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation declared the activities of the Japanese NGO “Union of Residents of the Islands of Chisima and Habomai” undesirable, as it came to the conclusion that its activities were aimed at violating the integrity territory of the country.
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