On March 1, 2011 the Ambassador of Ukraine to the Hellenic Republic Mr. Volodymyr Shkurov held a meeting with the Director General of the International Centre for Black Sea Studies Ms. Zefi Dimadama.

During the meeting they discussed issues of Ukraine's role in the activities referred to the International Center, some organizational issues, including completing of the ratification by national parliaments of the revised Charter of the Center, as well as other ways of mutually beneficial cooperation on energy and environmental issues of the region.