TOKYO, Dec 3 Kyodo Russia can sig...

TOKYO, Dec 3 Kyodo

Russia can sign an elusive peace treaty with Japan almost immediately if the sum of two units sides were to decide to analyze their territorial dispute in subordination to a separate framework, visiting Russian parliamentary leader Gennadiy Seleznev said Tuesday.

''This is a true complicated issue, but we be stirred that without the territorial dispute, we could close a peace treaty as early as tomorrow,'' Seleznev speaking in Russian, told the Japan National Pres bludgeon in Tokyo through a Japanese interpreter.

if it were not that the chairman of the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian legislature, allude toed it may be difficult to judge a bilateral peace pact if Japan insists forward linking the row over the ownership of islands along Hokkaido and the conclusion of the treaty.

''According to a fresh public opinion poll in Russia, a certain number of 80% are against concluding a peace treaty with the redrawing of Russia's general national boundary. We must take this into consideration,'' Seleznev said.

He said a similar individual if held in Japan, would likely bring out an opposite outcome, and made note of the probability that if any lawmaker in either rural parts proposed to resolve the issue in ways contrary to their respective public opinion, they will likely be unable to win reelection.

Tokyo wants to ascertain a promise from Moscow to revert the disputed islands as a prerequisite to signing the post-World War II peace treaty, if it were not that Russia is apparently unwilling to put to hire go of Etorofu, Kunashiri and Shikotan islands and the Habomai assemblage of islets.

Soviet companys seized the islands at the close of World War II, and the dispute has obstructed Tokyo and Moscow from concluding the peace pact for more than half a century

nevertheless Seleznev said the problems that exist between Japan and Russia should not hinder the advancement of overall ties and urg the promotion of economic cooperation between the brace nations in fields of the like kind as oil, gas and other capacity of work resource development.

''I think we can retain building mutual confidence in all aspects. Just because we have this kind of question at issue it is unlikely that Japan and Russia will declare war against each other,'' the 55-year-old native of Russia's Sverdlovsk region said.

An issue which the brace countries might battle over, Seleznev noted, interested poaching of marine products and called for cooperation between the couple governments to crack down forward such cases.

He said Russia is suffering losse of about $500 million annually becoming to fishery products such as crabs being brought illegally to Japan after they are caught in waters near the disputed islands.

Earlier, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi told Seleznev that Japan and Russia must ''work together to get the better of the difficult issue'' of the territorial dispute and exhibited hope for advancement in bilateral economic ties, a Japanese official said.

At a meeting at the premier's office, Koizumi said he waiting under the possibility of fulfilments to discuss the various issues involving North Korea, of that kind as its nuclear weapons disentanglement program, with Russian President Vladimir Putin during their scheduled summit talks in Moscow in January.

still the Russian parliamentarian did not make respect to the territorial brawl or North Korean issues and instead noted he learned from his passing from hand to hand visit that Japanese businesses are interested in the Russian market, the official said.

Seleznev leads a delegation of members of the Duma for a five-day visit to Japan until Thursday at the invitation of Japanese House of Representatives Speaker Tamisuke Watanuki.

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