in 2001 Altounsi was appointed as Honorary Consul of Ukraine in Aleppo, Syria and in the year 2016 he relocated to Beirut, Lebanon. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine noted that he ensured the evacuation of Ukrainian citizens to their homeland, in conditions that threatened their lives during the military conflict in Syria, in particular Altounsi worked on the return of the ukrainian crew of the ship "Sergeant Deroff N.G. to Ukraine