Recently, the heads of the physical culture and sports departments of the Volyn and Brest oblasts (Republic of Belarus) signed an agreement on cooperation for 2004. \nOn the Volyn side, this document was signed by the head of the department for physical culture and sports of the oblast state administration, Volodymyr Demchuk, and on the Brest side — by the head of the department for physical culture, sports and tourism of the oblast executive committee, Anatoliy Novytskyi. As reported by the press service of the Volyn Oblast State Administration, this is already the fifth such signed agreement on cooperation between the physical culture and sports departments of the Volyn and Brest oblasts. \nRepresentatives of the neighboring oblasts will compete in seven sports, in particular boxing, track and field and weightlifting, swimming, freestyle wrestling, judo, and kayaking and canoeing. It is envisaged that executive authority employees will also meet at sports grounds under the program of the "Vertykal" sports competition in various sports. \n