Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has said that the intergovernmental dialog between Kyiv and Moscow on completing the delimitation of the maritime border in the Black and Azov Seas and the Kerch Strait is continuing, but th ere are difficulties in talks.

"Significant differences in the basic approaches to the problems of determining the maritime border are complicating the negotiations," reads the president's annual address to the Verkhovna Rada, which was published on Thursday.

At the same time, Yanukovych said that avoiding the politicization of border issues and the positive mood of both sides show that a mutually acceptable result can be achieved.

The president also praised the beginning of the demarcation of the land section of the state border between Ukraine and Russia.