Moscow has withdrawn from the agreement with Tokyo on cooperation in the elimination of nuclear weapons
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin ordered the termination of the agreement with Japan on cooperation in the field of elimination of nuclear weapons subject to reduction. According to its terms, the obligations of the parties will be maintained for another six months. Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated that Japan is ready to deploy American nuclear weapons on its territory. For more information, see the material "Newspapers.Ru".
The government has ordered the termination of the agreement with Japan on cooperation in the field of elimination of nuclear weapons to be reduced in Russia, the document was posted on the official publication of legal acts website.
The document states that we are talking about an agreement signed in Tokyo on October 13, 1993.
The essence of the contract
Representatives of Russia and Japan 30 years ago signed an agreement on cooperation in the elimination of nuclear weapons subject to reduction in accordance with bilateral or multilateral treaties. At the same time, a special committee was created for this purpose, within the framework of which Moscow and Tokyo determined priority areas of their interaction, exchanged information and research results, and developed cooperation programs. The Technical Secretariat is in Japan. Tokyo then appointed the executive director of the committee.
Article 13 implied that the agreement would remain in force for another six months from the date "when one of the Parties notifies the other Party in writing of its intention to terminate it." That is, the obligations of the countries under the treaty will be lifted only in May 2024.
US Nuclear Weapons
In July, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Japan was ready to deploy American nuclear weapons on its territory. According to him, NATO plans to move part of its military infrastructure to the Indo-Pacific region - mainly to the countries that took part in the NATO summit in Vilnius - to Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and Japan.
At the NATO summit in July, Japan opened its representative office at the alliance in Brussels.
Cooling relations
The Russian Foreign Ministry will have to notify Tokyo of Moscow's decision to break the agreement. So far, this has not been reported on the website of the Russian diplomatic agency.
Earlier, the ministry repeatedly stressed that after the start of the special operation in Ukraine, Japan took an openly hostile course towards Russia. In such circumstances, Moscow does not see an opportunity to continue with Tokyo "the dialogue that took place earlier on the preparation of a peace treaty (following the results of World War II, it was never concluded due to the dispute over the Kuril Islands. - "Newspaper.Ru"), the purpose of which was to lay the foundation for long-term good-neighborly relations."
Japan has imposed several packages of anti-Russian sanctions because of the situation around Ukraine. This includes an embargo on the import of advanced technologies to Russia, including quantum computers. Japan's black lists include more than 700 citizens of the Russian Federation, Belarus, as well as more than 200 Russian legal entities.
Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry did not coordinate consultations on fishing "in the context of anti-Russian measures taken by the Japanese government, which clearly go against the spirit and letter of the 1998 agreement on strengthening and developing good neighborliness." In early October, Russia refused to grant Japanese fishermen permits to fish off the southern Kuril Islands. Since October 16, the Russian authorities have restricted the import of fish and seafood from Japan, citing the fact that Tokyo is dumping water from the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant.
Leonid Tsvetaev