STRASBOURG, 28 October 2015 – Mr Mykola Tochytskyi, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the Council of Europe signed in the name of Ukraine the Additional Protocol to the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism, aimed at tackling the problem of «foreign terrorist fighters». Thus, Ukraine became 18th Member State of this Organisation to have signed this important international instrument. The Protocol will make a number of acts, including taking part in an association or group for the purpose of terrorism, receiving terrorist training, travelling abroad for the purposes of terrorism and financing or organising travel for this purpose, a criminal offence. The Protocol also provides for a network of 24-hour-a-day national contact points facilitating the rapid exchange of information.