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Alyona Getmanchuk, Director of the Institute of World Policy, has been included into Ukrainian delegation at the 25th summit of the Consultative Committee of the Presidents of Ukraine and Poland.The next meeting of the Consultative Committee of the Presidents of Ukraine and Poland (with new members) is scheduled for the first quarter of 2016, in Kyiv, which has been agreed during the official visit of the President of Poland Andrzej Duda to Ukraine on December 14-15, 2015.

The other members of Ukrainian delegation were Kostiantyn Yelisieiev, the Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration; Andrii Deshchytsia, the Ambassador of Ukraine to Poland; Olexandr Lytvynenko, the Deputy Secretary of the National Security Council; and Igor Zhovkva, the Head of the Department of Foreign Policy and European Integration of the Presidential Administration.

The Committee had been established in 1993, and has become an important advisory body for the Presidents of Ukraine and Poland and one of the key institutional mechanisms of Ukrainian-Polish cooperation in recent years. The CCP’s activities contribute significantly to active dialogue between the two Presidents, as well as to search for ways to address the urgent issues of the bilateral agenda, introduce and implement new initiatives and projects.

For the time being, 24 CCP summits have been held. The last one has been organized on December 3, 2014, in Warsaw.