Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks during a news conference following the talks with his Cuban counterpart Bruno Rodriguez in Moscow, Russia May 27, 2019. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday that Russia was only operating on its own territory after Japan accused Moscow of a military buildup on a chain of islands in the Pacific, RIA news agency reported.
Russia has held the islands - known as the Northern Territories in Japan and the Southern Kuriles in Russia - since World War Two and they are a reason the two countries have not formally ended hostilities since the war.
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