The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said it may seek a solution to the question of the delimitation of the border with Russia in the Azov Sea and the Kerch Strait at an international court.
Volodymyr Vasylenko, Ukraine’s envoy for the United Nations International Court in the Hague, the Netherlands, told this at a briefing.
He said the negotiations with Russia on the matter have reached a deadlock.
“It is obvious, that a normal solution, a civilized solution could be achieved through engagement of a third party. I mean either the UN International Court or, at the worst, the creation of an interim arbitration court,” Vasylenko said.
He said it was hard to predict whether the Russian side would agree to go to an international court for the settlement of the question, or not.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, Russia has said more than once there is no state border line between Ukraine and Russia in the Azov Sea and the Kerch Straight, and denied Ukraine’s accusations of ignoring the international law in the demarcation of the Kerch strait, since the Kerch strait borderline was not defined in the Russia-Ukraine treaties regulating the bilateral border.
Ukraine says Russia is the only neighbor left to settle the question of the sea border lines.
On October 24, Leonid Osavoliuk, director of the first territorial department of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said Ukraine could demarcate the border with Russia unilaterally if Russia further refuses to do this.
