KIEV, April 4 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine has proposed resuming talks on property belonging to but located outside of the former Soviet Union, a spokesman for the country's foreign ministry said Tuesday.

"Ukraine is following closely the issue of the former Soviet Union's property and is interested in overcoming all obstacles to the solution of this problem between Ukraine and Russia," Vasyl Fylypchuk said.

Ukraine was the only country to reject the "zero option" plan put forward by Russia to the other former Soviet republics in 1991, under which Russia would assume all Soviet debts if the republics pledged to not claim Soviet property abroad. In 1992, the two countries signed an agreement under which Ukraine could receive a number of foreign assets.

Fylypchuk said it was not Ukraine's fault that the problem remained unsettled.

"We [said] any solution would be possible only if the Russian Federation provided a whole list of complete and objective information regarding the debts as well as assets of the former Soviet Union," he said.

In 2004, Russia gave Ukraine a list of 28 facilities abroad, of which Ukraine chose nine.

In February 2005, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the agreement was still in force and talks to hand over a number of facilities to Ukraine for long-term lease were ongoing.