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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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Soviet Premier Khrushchev accused the Japanese government of damaging Japan's fishing industry by obstructing a peace treaty with the Soviet Union, in a letter to opposition leader Mosaburo Suzuki. This relates to ongoing fishing pact negotiations in Moscow, amid territorial disputes over Sakhalin and Kurile Islands.
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TOKYO (AP)—Soviet Premier Khrushchev has accused the Japanese government of damaging Japan's fishing industry by obstructing conclusion of a peace treaty with Russia.
Khrushchev's statement was in a letter dated April 14 and delivered to Mosaburo Suzuki, chairman of the Socialist Party, main opposition to the ruling Liberal-Democrats.
Khrushchev replied to a letter from Suzuki urging the Soviet Union to agree to a new fishing pact even though a peace treaty never has been signed with the Soviet Union since the end of World War II.
The fishing talks between the two powers now are reaching the final stage in Moscow. The pact is expected to all but close the Soviet sea of Okhotsk north of Japan to Japanese fishermen.
These were important fishing waters for Japan in the days when it controlled Southern Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands along the eastern boundaries of the sea. The Soviet Union took over all Sakhalin and the Kuriles in the closing days of the war.
Japan wants at least the Southern Kuriles returned and this demand is one of the chief stumbling blocks to a peace treaty.
Khrushchev wrote Suzuki that in the fishing agreement the Soviet Union did not seek any special interest or privilege but was concerned only with conservation of marine resources and their logical utilization.
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Tokyo
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April 14
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the fishing pact is expected to close the sea of okhotsk to japanese fishermen; japan seeks return of southern kuriles as a stumbling block to peace treaty.
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Soviet Premier Khrushchev accused the Japanese government of damaging Japan's fishing industry by obstructing a peace treaty with Russia in a letter dated April 14 to Mosaburo Suzuki, chairman of the Socialist Party. This replied to Suzuki's urging for a new fishing pact despite no peace treaty since World War II. Fishing talks in Moscow are nearing conclusion, limiting Japanese access to former fishing waters in the Sea of Okhotsk, previously controlled when Japan held Southern Sakhalin and Kurile Islands, taken by the Soviet Union at war's end. Khrushchev emphasized Soviet concerns for marine resource conservation.