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Ukraine has informed the International Maritime Organization (IMO) that any documents (both qualification papers and seafarers' IDs), issued in the occupied Crimea and Sevastopol after July 15, 2014, are invalid, according to the press service of the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority.
These papers "have no legal implications and should be considered fake," reads the report referring to the document the USPA has submitted to IMO Sub-Committee on Human Element, Training and Watchkeeping (HTW).
Read alsoInfrastructure Ministry intends to reduce fees in seaports by 60% in two stagesThe Ukrainian delegation has also drawn the attention of IMO members to the fact that the procedure of registration and issuance of qualifications of seafarers and seafarers' IDs by the legitimate Ukrainian authorities (sea ports of Izmail, Mariupol, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Kherson, Chornomorsk) remains in force.
Upon the review, the IMO sub-committee took note of the Ukrainian report.