Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree dismissing Vasyl Bodnar from the post of Ukraine's representative to the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization (BSEC).

The relevant decree was signed and published on the president's website on July 27.

By another decree, the president appointed Oleksandr Haman, the consul general of Ukraine in Istanbul, as Ukraine's representative to the BSEC concurrently.

As reported, Poroshenko appointed Ukraine's Consul General in Istanbul Bodnar as the country's representative to the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation in March 2016.