SOCHI, Aug. 11 - Russia and Ukraine have to settle the border issue existing between them, said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

"We need also to think about definitively settling the state border issue. We have a lot of subjects for a conversation. Therefore, I believe this conversation should be sincere, open, and friendly, just as it has always been between us," Medvedev said at a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych in Sochi on Thursday.

Medvedev said the two would also discuss other issues, among them gas cooperation, integration processes on the former Soviet territory and others.