RUSSIA AND JAPAN

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27643, 27 April 1955, Page 13

RUSSIA AND JAPAN

London Chosen As Talks Site

(Rec. 9 p.m.) NEW YORK. April 25. Japan s choice of London «• the site for Soviet-Japaneze peace talks was acceptable to the Soviet Union and formal negotiations were expected to begin early in June, it was announced today. The announcement, made by Mr Renzo Sawada, Japan’s observer at the United Nations, was the culmination of a series of Notes exchanged since, February between Mr Sawada and Mr Arkady Sobolev, chief Soviet delegate to the United Nations. Mr Sobolev called on Mr Sawada this evening and handed him a Note in which the Soviet Government agreed to London as the site for the peace talks.

Mr Sawada, asked. by a correspondent when the discussions would begin, said that he had told Mr Sobolev that Japan would like to see the talks start in the early days of June. “Mr Sobolev said that the Soviet Government considered that it would be possible to begin the talks in the early days of June,” Mr Sawada added.

The Soviet Union, which had not signed the Japanese Peace Treaty coneluded at San Francisco in 1951, proposed early this year that relations between the two countries be ‘‘normalised.”

Japan agreed and it was decided that arrangements for the negotiations would be made through Mr Sawada and Mr Sobolev.