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The Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Ukraine and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office of the
United Kingdom announce the successful completion of a joint project
aimed at strengthening the communication capacities of Ukraine’s
diplomatic service. The FCO funded project lasted from November 2014 until April
2015 and included three stages.
At the first stage, a “buddying model”
was introduced. Press-officers of British Embassies in eight foreign countries
shared their experience in communications with their counterparts in respective
Ukrainian Embassies.
The second stage of the
project took place in March 2015 in the form of a week-long training session for
ten Ukrainian junior and middle-ranked diplomats in London. Diplomats
received training from FCO coaches whoregularly tutor UK diplomats to
communicate effectively and mount information campaigns.
The third stage lasted from 30
March until 3 April. The Minister, Deputy Ministers and ten Ukrainian
Ambassadors and Charge d’Affaires received media training from Robert
Taylor, an experienced trainer of UK Ambassadors. Taking this opportunity, the
MFA also invited other experts in communications to hold sessions in the
margins of the training. The Ministry thanks Maksym Savanevsky (Ukraine
Crisis Media Center) for speaking on the role of social media and Whit Mason
(Mason Communications) for a discussion on communication strategies.
"We are deeply grateful
to our British colleagues for their sincere commitment to helping Ukraine. FCO
shared its best experience with us making valuable contribution to building up
our communication capacities. We will continue working closely together to
promote our common values and counter Russian propaganda on the international
level. MFA remains devoted to holding more communication trainings for our
diplomats with special focus on Ambassadors of Ukraine", Dmytro Kuleba,
Ambassador-at-Large from Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry, said on the occasion of
the completion of the project.
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