The first meeting of the group of the Group on International Security Guarantees for Ukraine, co-chaired by the head of the GRO Andriy Yermak and former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, was held in Kyiv, the press service of the Office of the President reports..

Security guarantees should protect our country from aggression in the future. Experts are convinced that the development of security guarantees for Ukraine is important for the whole world. Ukraine should receive clear commitments to strengthen its defense capabilities.

During the first meeting of the Group, in particular, its participants were represented by:.

former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd;

Former Undersecretary of Defense for Political Affairs Michel Flournoy;

former Swedish Prime Minister and former Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt;

Former British Foreign Secretary William Hague;

Former German Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Norbert Roettgen;

Former Polish Foreign Minister and MEP Anna Fotiga;

Director of the Wider Europe Program of the European Council on Foreign Relations, French diplomat Marie Dumolin;

President of the Italian Institute for International Political Studies, diplomat Jampero Massolo;

director of the Center for Oriental Studies (OSW), Polish political scientist Adam Eberhardt;

political expert Roxana Critescu;

People's Deputy of Ukraine, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Legal Policy Andriy Kostin.

The project managers of the group from the Ukrainian side will be Alexander Bevz and Daria Zarivnaya, from the Rasmussen Global organization - Fabrice Pottier and Harry Nedeltsu.

Members of the working group act as experts on their own behalf and do not represent the governments of their countries or the organizations in which they work, emphasized in the message of the OP.

The Team of Specialists on International Security Assurances is expected to produce a first paper by the end of the month.

On June 27, at a meeting of the G7 leaders' summit, Volodymyr Zelensky invited the G7 leaders to join the work on security guarantees for Ukraine.