The editorial in the paper met the approval today of a spokesman for the Japanese Foreign Office. He observed that the "Pravda" expressed great hope that friendly relations between Japan and the Soviet Union would be promoted.
"We share that view," he stated. "We t to arrive at an amicable agreement on pending questions between the two countries, including trade, fishery, ai! and coal concession questions."
The spokesman said that the "Prov covered a wide-range of subjects but did not touch a nonaggression pact.
"What is in our mind," he said "is the settlement of all pending questions. A non-aggression pact is not in our programme;"—Domei.
Tokyo's Caution Over Negotiations Tokyo, Dec. 4.
"The Soviet Union desires to negotiate an agreement on the basic principles of an understanding before taking up concrete issues. Japan, on the other hand, insists on a solution of concrete issues, such as the Man choukuo border revision, a fisheries pact and clarification of Japanese rights in North Saghalien, before attempting a basic adjustment of Japanese-Soviet relations."
These comments are made today by the miyako Shimbun," discussing the course of negotiations between the two countries. The newspaper adds that the Japanese Government fears to reach an outright basic Japanese-Soviet understand. as it might "seriously affect the prestige of the Japanese Governments policy of defence of anti-Communism and produce it ly a state of ideological confusion."—Reuter.
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