Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Head Vasyl Hrytsak and representatives of the NATO Communication Office in Ukraine and the EU Advisory Mission for Civilian Security Sector Reform Ukraine, have agreed during their meeting to create a permanent international advisory group on the SBU reform.

Representatives of the EU Advisory Mission for Civilian Security Sector Reform Ukraine, foreign advisors at the NATO Communication Office in Ukraine, employees of the

NATO Centre for information and documentation in Ukraine, and other international organizations will join the group, as well as leading foreign and Ukrainian experts in this field, the SBU press service said in a report.

"The main goal is [to organize] expert support of the process of the Security Service reforming by way of holding permanent consultations on improvement of legal regulation, development of an advanced SBU model with consideration of the best political and legal practices of EU member states and NATO, and to lay out an agreed package of proposals (a plan) with regard to stages of the reform," the report says.

The group will start its work with a due diligence of the existing legal regulation in the area of national security. "In this context, SBU expresses gratitude to the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces for the preparation and publication of English versions of the statutory acts regulating Ukraine's security sector," it says.