Tokyo, July 27 The Foreign Office Issued a ment today blaming the unfavour attitude of the Soviet for the dead-! flock, since the Spring of 1997, in the negotiations, begun in 1992, between Russia and "Japan for the establish-Jment of two. commissions, one to re-demarcate the Soviet-Manchoukito border, and the other to settle tronter dispute.
"The statement said that the Soviet insisted, but Japan and Manchoulcuo Jcould not accept, until re-demarcation had been effected, 1. That the frontier line claimed by the Soviet should be respected by, Japan and Manchukuo; 2. That, in the composition of the commissions, Japan and Manchukuo should be considered as one unit and the Soviet the other, whereas Japan and Manchukuo wanted to considered as two. separate units with the Soviet as the third.
The statement emphasised the im-Jportance that the Japanese Goveru-Jment attached to the re-demarcation, Jof the boundary as a means of obviate ing Frontier incidents and securing harmonious relations between Soviet Russia and Japan—Reuter.
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