Declaration of the United States Senate included with the Ratification of the Treaty of Peace with Japan

Issued 28 April 1952

The United States of America and El Salvador were the only parties to the San Francisco Treaty which issued Declarations with their Ratifications expressing reservations about some of the Treaty's provisions.

D E C L A R A T I O N

    As part of such advice and consent the Senate states that nothing the treaty contains is deemed to diminish or prejudice, in favor of the Soviet Union, the right, title, and interest of Japan, or the Allied Powers as defined in said treaty, in and to South Sakhalin and its adjacent islands, the Kurile Islands, the Habomai Islands, the Island of Shikotan, or any other territory, rights, or interests possessed by Japan on December 7, 1941, or to confer any right, title, or benefit therein or thereto on the Soviet Union; and also nothing in the said treaty, or the advice and consent of the Senate to the ratification thereof, implies recognition on the part of the United States of the provisions in favor of the Soviet Union contained in the so-called "Yalta Agreement" regarding Japan of February 11, 1945.