KIEV, Feb. 14 – Kiev has abandoned its demand for the establishment of a midline in the demarcation of the border in the Azov Sea, according to an article in the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia Ukraine (Mirror Weekly) newspaper on Saturday.

Last week a group of Russian diplomats headed by the special representative of the Russian president on the delimitation and demarcation of the state border of Russia with the neighboring CIS countries, Alexander Golovin, came to Kiev with its proposals on the demarcation of the Kerch Strait, according to the newspaper. The officials held talks in strict secrecy with a small group of Ukrainian experts headed by Ambassador-at-Large Viktor Kyryk.