Substitution of new fishery lots in the Soviet waters of the Japan Sea for the forty. so-called stabilized. fishery lots in which the Soviet Union recently refused to allow Japanese fishing was proposed by Mr. Shigenori Togo, Japanese Ambassador at Moscow, in his eighth conversation with M. Maxim Litvinov, Soviet Foreign Affairs Commissiar held on December 23, the Foreign Office revealed in a statement last night.
The Japanese envoy agreed to a partial surrender of the lots from which the Moscow Government felt necessary to exclude Japanese for "strategical reasons" provided the status quo were maintained. in the remainder of the lots, the statement said.
Mr. Togo also requested that the contract term for the stabilized lots, With the exception of the forty affected by the new ruling, be extended for another year, while M. Litvinov is said to have insisted that the entire lots be submitted for auction.
M. Litvinov was further said to have told the Japanese envoy that it was "prepared to continue" the discussions next year.—Domei.
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