The security of the Far Eastern oblast of the USSR will henceforth be a joint obligation of the USSR and the Japanese Self- Defense Forces.
Since being taken from Japan in 1945, the southern Sakhalin oblast has been closed to all Western visitors.
Within one year of the satisfaction of all formalities pursuant to the above-designated credits, the USSR will renounce sole proprietorship of the Kurile Islands and the Soviet oblast of Sakhalin.
