The dispute over the islands called the southern Kuril Islands by Russia and the NorthernTerritories in Japan has kept the two countries from signing a peace agreement after World War II and continues to be a thorn in bilateral relations.
An emergency G-7 meeting that has the effect of supplanting Japanese leadership of the Group of Seven prior to the Tokyo summit and that will likely be used as a forum for demanding that Japan abandon its position on the NorthernTerritories will serve neither the long-term interests of the Russian people nor those of the industrialized world.
The museum and other historians say the letter obscures the reality that Bulgaria was an ally of Nazi Germany and that 11, 343 Jews were deported from Macedonia and northern Greece territories then under Bulgarian control.
Australia is a federal state, and most such decisions are made not by the federal government but by those of the six states (New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania) and the two territories (the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory, around Canberra).
The devolved administrations in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are responsible for identifying sites within their respective territories for inclusion on the nomination list.