NO PROGRESS IN KURIL ISLAND TALKS.

The seventh round of Russian-Japanese negotiations on fishing rights in the waters around the disputed Kuril Islands concluded in Tokyo on November 22, apparently without recording any progress. A Russian report said that Japan’s unwillingness to recognize Russian sovereignty over the islands remains the main stumbling block to fashioning a regime by which Japanese boats could fish the waters in question. (Itar-Tass, November 22)

Slovakia, Russia Sign Agreements.