761.948/132: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Bullitt) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 15—3:45 a.m.]
288. At the close of our conversation, reported in my No. 287, July 15 [14], 5 p.m.,37 I asked Sakoh about the status of his fisheries negotiations with the Soviet Foreign Office. He said that he had made demands which the Soviet Government absolutely refused to accept. He added that every other day he calls at the Foreign Office and repeats his demands. He predicted that the Soviet Government would continue to reject his proposals until the last moment before the expiration of the present fisheries convention. “The convention expires May 23, 1936. The Soviet Government will accept my demands on May 21, 1936,” said Sakoh.
In discussing the border commission which the Japanese and Russian Governments have agreed to establish Sakoh states that Yurenev, Soviet Ambassador to Japan, had insisted on a reservation excluding the status of the island in the Amur River opposite Habarovsk from the discussions of the commission, “however the commission will discuss it,” said Sakoh.
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