KYIV. July 13 (Interfax) - Ukraine and Russia have ended talks on the delimitation of their border in Sea of Azov, the Black Sea and the Kerch Strait.
The announcement was made during the fifth session of a bilateral interstate commission in Livadia (Yalta), an Interfax correspondent reports.
Ukrainian and Russian Presidents Viktor Yanukovych and Vladimir Putin signed a declaration on the contents of bilateral strategic partnership.
In the course of the talks, the Ukrainian side insisted that the border in the Kerch Strait should repeat the Soviet-era administrative border and voiced readiness to compromise on economic issues. Kyiv was prepared to discuss the idea of the joint exploitation of the straight on a parity basis.
This approach did not suit Russia. Moscow argued that the Soviet-era administrative border was pretty conventional and existed only on maps and not in reality.
Proposals were put forward to divide the Kerch Straight into "zones of responsibility".