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Alyona Getmanchuk, Director of the IWP, participated in the meeting of the Consultative Committee of the Presidents of Ukraine and Poland held on March 3-4, 2016, in Warsaw.The meeting was co-chaired by Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine Kostiantyn Yelisieiev and State Secretary of the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland Krzysztof Szczerski.

During the meeting, the sides exchanged their views on a wide range of Ukrainian-Polish relations and security issues. They discussed the schedule of bilateral contacts at the highest level for this year, and outlined the priority areas for institutional mechanisms of Ukrainian-Polish cooperation; furthermore, they discussed the algorithm of bilateral collaboration in the context of regional cooperation, convergence of Ukraine with the EU, and the agenda of European security (according to the Presidential Administration of Ukraine).
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Special attention was paid to the problems related to further process of reconciliation and maintenance of constructive dialogue on sensitive issues of common history of the two nations.

Both sides positively assessed substantive talks on urgent issues of bilateral cooperation and international relations, including security policy in Ukraine and the region; the process of rapprochement between Ukraine and the EU, historical dialogue, cooperation in educational and academic fields, substantive assistance of the Republic of Poland for the internal reforms in Ukraine (according to the Embassy of Ukraine to the Republic of Poland).