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Russo-Japanese peace negotiations begin at Portsmouth

Delegations from Russia and Japan, convened under President Theodore Roosevelt's mediation, began formal peace negotiations at Portsmouth, New Hampshire on August 9, 1905.

Russo-Japanese peace negotiations begin at Portsmouth

Those negotiations, brokered by Roosevelt, produced the Treaty of Portsmouth that ended the Russo-Japanese War and marked a major achievement in U.S. international diplomacy (earning Roosevelt the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize).

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