On November 17, in the Igor Sikorsky KPI the Reportable—elective conference of the Ukrainian Peace Council was held.
The chairperson of the Presidium of the Ukrainian Peace Council was the first President of the Independent Ukraine Leonid Makarovich Kravchuk.
The delegates of the conference considered and approved the report of the Presidium of the Ukrainian Peace Council, the Revision committee and elected a new staff of its governing board.
Leonid Makarovich Kravchuk was elected as chairperson of the Ukrainian Peace Council and has remained on this post since 1997. The Rector of the Igor Sikorsky KPI, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Mikhail Zakharovich and Volodymyr Dmitrievich Novokhatsky were his deputies. Finally, a new version of the Statute of the Ukrainian Peace Council was approved.
The Ukrainian Peace Council is an important component of the system of forming a foreign policy peace-keeping course of the state and raising the prestige of Ukraine on the international scene. Also, it is especially important for our state today, when Ukraine is experiencing very difficult times.