{"id":52807,"date":"2019-01-17T11:09:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T11:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=52807"},"modified":"2019-01-17T11:09:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T11:09:48","slug":"russia-calls-on-japan-to-recognise-outcome-of-world-war-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/russia-calls-on-japan-to-recognise-outcome-of-world-war-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia calls on Japan to recognise outcome of World War Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday denied Moscow was imposing an ultimatum on Japan in talks to end a decades-long territorial dispute, but called on Tokyo to recognise the results of World War Two.<\/p>\n<p>Japan is currently mounting a push to reach a peace deal with Russia that would end a dispute over islands captured by Soviet troops in the last days of World War Two.<br \/>\nRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono amid increasing tensions around the disputed Kuril islands.<\/p>\n<p>The islands are known as the Southern Kuriles to Russia and the Northern Territories to Japan. Russia has said Tokyo must first recognise Russian sovereignty over the islands in order for any progress to be made in peace talks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are not pre-conditions, it\u2019s just an effort to understand why Japan is the only country in the world which cannot say: \u2018I accept the results of World World Two in their entirety\u2019,\u201d Lavrov told a news conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday denied Moscow was imposing an ultimatum on Japan in talks to end a decades-long territorial dispute, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52809,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52807\/revisions\/52809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}