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Article: Russia to keep military presence in South Kurils unchanged
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- July 28, 2005
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Russia to keep military presence in South Kurils unchanged
MOSCOW, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Russia will keep its military presence
unchanged in the South Kuril islands, claims over which remain a half-
century dispute with Japan, as it sees no conditions for any change
of forces there, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said Thursday.
"We are not planning to either reduce or increase our military
presence in the South Kurils. This I can say quite certainly,"
Ivanov, who is on a working trip to the Far East, told the Interfax
news agency in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
At present, a Russian battalion and border forces are deployed on
the islands. ...