Russia Has Suggested Ukraine to Recognise Kerch Strait As the Commonplace

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Russia Has Suggested Ukraine to Recognise Kerch Strait As the Commonplace

Despite successful negotiations of heads the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Russia about demarcation of overland border between two countries in 2010, delimitation sea border still remains a problem question.

After Saturday negotiations in Kiev Konstantin Grishchenko and Sergey Lavrov the Ukrainian minister ascertained that the parties «have exchanged opinions about it». However, as has informed an edition source in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, prospects of delimitation of sea border in Kiev estimate not too optimistically.

«Under condition of the decision» of a Kerch question «we really could co-ordinate in short terms a line in the Azov and Black seas. But while across Kerch strait positions of Kiev and Moscow do not coincide, — the interlocutor of» the Businessman «has noted. — We insist that the border line already exists, and it is confirmed with maps of the Soviet Joint Staff. The Russian colleagues while offer unacceptable variants — for example, to spend border on a waterway, thereby declaring island Tuzla an Ukrainian enclave «in the Russian maritime belt, or at all to refuse border carrying out, having given to passage the status of the general internal maritime belt»

Negotiations about delimitation of water areas Azovo-Kerch are conducted by Ukraine and Russia since 1996, reminds the edition. For the past 14 years has taken place more than 30 rounds of negotiations, but positions of the parties have in this time approached slightly. «Considering it, the decision on principles of delimitation will be accepted not on diplomatic, and at political level. There is a hope that progress will be already at May session of the presidential interstate commission», — the director of the international programs of Center Razumkov Michael Pashkov considers.

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