On May 11, ARC expert Professor Borys Babin, at the invitation of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Foreign Policy and Interparliamentary Cooperation, took part in committee hearings on the topic: “Work of the Consular Service of Ukraine during the war”, which were held in zoom-conference mode.
During the committee hearings, the problematic issues of the work of the consular service of Ukraine in the conditions of a sharp increase in the number of Ukrainian citizens abroad, including displaced persons and refugees, in particular from the temporarily occupied Crimea with the beginning of the large-scale armed aggression of Russia against Ukraine, were discussed, as well as possible ways of solving the issues of optimizing consular service to citizens of Ukraine in the current situation.
