色丹の水産加工場稼働を祝福＝首脳会談前に揺さぶり－ロ大統領

　【ウラジオストク時事】ロシアのプーチン大統領は５日未明、ロシア企業が北方領土の色丹島に開設した大規模水産加工場の従業員とビデオ中継で対話し、「成功を祈る」と語り掛けて稼働を祝福した。ロシアによる色丹島の実効支配を強調する意図がありそうだ。
　安倍晋三首相は昨年１１月、シンガポールでプーチン大統領と会談後、「１９５６年共同宣言を基礎として、平和条約交渉を加速させる。プーチン大統領と合意した」と発表した。５６年の日ソ共同宣言は、平和条約締結後の歯舞群島、色丹島の引き渡しを明記している。プーチン氏には、極東ウラジオストクでの５日の日ロ首脳会談を前に、色丹島の支配確立を誇示し、日本側を揺さぶる狙いもあったとみられる。（2019/09/05-04:19）

Russian President Vladimir Putin celebrated on Thursday the opening of a new large fishery processing plant built on one of the four northwestern Pacific islands at the center of a decades-old territorial row between Moscow and Tokyo.
   Talking with workers of the plant via a video link, Putin, now on a visit to Vladivostok, said he prays for the success of the factory built by major Russian fishery products company Gidrostroy.
   Putin apparently intended to highlight Russia's effective control of the island, called Shikotan in Japan, and the other three islands, just before holding a bilateral summit with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe later on Thursday, on the sidelines of an Eastern Economic Forum meeting in the Russian Far East city, pundits said.
   The four islands, collectively known in Japan as the Northern Territories, were seized by the former Soviet Union from Japan at the end of World War II. The territorial dispute has been preventing Tokyo and Moscow from concluding a peace treaty to formally end their wartime hostilities.
   After holding talks with Putin in Singapore last November, Abe said that they agreed to accelerate peace treaty negotiations based on the 1956 Japan-Soviet joint declaration. The document called for the handover of two of the four islands--Shikotan and the Habomais--to Japan after the conclusion of a peace treaty.