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On February 7, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel delivered the following speech, which revealed the U.S. readiness to undermine global security:
“On February 7th, as Japan observes Northern Territories day, I want to be crystal clear. The United States supports Japan on the issue of the northern territories and recognizes over the four disputed islands since the 1950s. Our concerns over Russian actions are not new. Unfortunately, Russia’s disregard of the sovereignty of others is also not new, nor is limited to the northern territories.”
Thus, through its ambassador to Japan, Washington declared that de facto it does not consider the decisions taken within the Yalta Conference of 1945 necessary for implementation.
2月7日の北方領土の日に際し、はっきりと伝えたいことがあります。米国は北方領土問題で日本を支持しています。pic.twitter.com/JtWswp0lHX
— ラーム・エマニュエル駐日米国大使 (@USAmbJapan) February 7, 2022
Until now, the United States has never denied the decisions taken within the Agreement regarding Japan, which was signed in 1945.
AGREEMENT REGARDING JAPAN
The leaders of the three great powers – the Soviet Union, the United States of America and Great Britain – have agreed that in two or three months after Germany has surrendered and the war in Europe is terminated, the Soviet Union shall enter into war against Japan on the side of the Allies on condition that:
- 1. The status quo in Outer Mongolia (the Mongolian People’s Republic) shall be preserved.
- 2. The former rights of Russia violated by the treacherous attack of Japan in 1904 shall be restored, viz.:
- (a) The southern part of Sakhalin as well as the islands adjacent to it shall be returned to the Soviet Union;
- (b) The commercial port of Dairen shall be internationalized, the pre-eminent interests of the Soviet Union in this port being safeguarded, and the lease of Port Arthur as a naval base of the U.S.S.R. restored;
- (c) The Chinese-Eastern Railroad and the South Manchurian Railroad, which provide an outlet to Dairen, shall be jointly operated by the establishment of a joint Soviet-Chinese company, it being understood that the pre-eminent interests of the Soviet Union shall be safeguarded and that China shall retain sovereignty in Manchuria;
- 3. The Kurile Islands shall be handed over to the Soviet Union.
It is understood that the agreement concerning Outer Mongolia and the ports and railroads referred to above will require concurrence of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. The President will take measures in order to maintain this concurrence on advice from Marshal Stalin.
The heads of the three great powers have agreed that these claims of the Soviet Union shall be unquestionably fulfilled after Japan has been defeated.
For its part, the Soviet Union expresses it readiness to conclude with the National Government of China a pact of friendship and alliance between the U.S.S.R. and China in order to render assistance to China with its armed forces for the purpose of liberating China from the Japanese yoke.
Joseph Stalin
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winston S. ChurchillFebruary 11, 1945.
The Kuril Islands is a geographical name, the term itself is from the Ainu language, not the Japanese. Throughout history, the name ‘Kuril Islands’ has referred to the entire string of islands, sometimes including Hokkaido, which until the 19th century was inhabited exclusively by the Ainu, later annihilated by the Japanese, who called the Ainu barbarians.
According to international law, the historically recognized name of groups of geographical objects applies to each object from this group. Thus, before 1945, there could be no other interpretation of geographical affiliation.
The statement made by the official representative of Washington can be considered as a signal of the final revision of the post-war Yalta-Potsdam-Washington system of international relations.
