The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said Volodymyr Ohryzko and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, who met Tuesday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session, both stated the necessity of prolonging the two countries' friendship and cooperation agreement.
The pact will be automatically extended if the parties do not express any objections before October 1.
The high-ranking diplomats also discussed the issue of Russia's Black Sea Fleet presence in Ukraine's Crimea as well as the disagreement over the maritime boundary in the Sea of Azov.
Ukraine insists Russia will have to leave the Sevastopol base when the current lease agreement expires in 2017. The base has been a source of friction between Russia and Ukraine in recent years, as Ukraine's pro-Western president, Viktor Yushchenko, has sought NATO and EU membership for the country.
Russia has accused Kiev of pursuing "unfriendly" policies over the Black Sea Fleet base.
Yushchenko has called for the Russian navy's early pullout, tougher deployment requirements and higher fees, demands that have not been backed by his former coalition ally, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
The two countries are also in dispute over the maritime boundary in the Sea of Azov. Ukraine insists that a national border be drawn in the Kerch Strait that matches the administrative border that existed in the former Soviet Union.
Russia maintains that inland water areas were not delimited between the former Soviet republics and therefore this principle is not applicable.
