On 15 November 2018 the Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in ARC Borys Babin, officials of the Department of International Connections Yevhen Samukha and Valeria Pakhomova participated in the sitting of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. During the Committee sitting, the proposals highlighted by the Permanent Representative regarding the need to intensify the work of international platform “Friends of De-occupation of Crimea” were reviewed, in particular a number of events with the participation of the representatives of international community to be held. As the result, due regard was given to the proposals of the Mission and MFA of Ukraine and it was decided to improve further work under the platform “Friends of DE-occupation of Crimea”.