The Russian and Japan agreements are suspended

According to a report on September 5th, the Russian New Year's Eve, according to the government order announced on the Russian legal information website, Russia terminated the Japanese citizen's visit to the Japanese citizen's visit to Konashir (known as the Kuang Island) and Itrup. Agreement on the island (called the island) and the Kojima Islands.

It is reported that according to the maximum facilitation agreement signed in 1999, Aboriginal and family members have the right to enter the above islands with more convenient procedures.

According to reports, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said earlier that, as a retaliation measure of Tokyo's unfriendly actions, Moscow refused to negotiate the peace treaty and at the same time withdrawing from the dialogue on joint economic activities on the South Thousand Islands (the four islands in the North).

According to Japan's "Yomiuri News" reported on September 6, the Russian government issued a decree on the 5th to tear up "visa -free communication" and "free visit". Specifically, "visa -free communication" means that the northern territory (Russia is called the South Qiandao Islands) as the object, and the Japanese and the local Russians can visit each other without passports and visas; The original islanders can access the northern territory through simplified procedures. Japanese media believe that Russia's move is to shake Japan, which has a unified step with the United States and Europe, and Japan imposed sanctions with Europe and the United States after the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

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