Kawana - Japan and Russia turned up the pressure yesterday to resolve a territorial dispute that has blocked a peace treaty between the countries for more than five decades. President Yeltsin said he was frustrated at the pace of progress at a joint news conference with the Japanese Prime Minister, Mr Ryutaro Hashimoto, after a summit in the resort of Kawana.
"We expressed our dissatisfaction because its work is too slow for the pace we would like to see," Mr Yeltsin said about a peace treaty commission established last November.