From February 16 to 20, 2004, the first stage of the project "Polish-Ukrainian Cross-Border Cooperation" will take place in the city of Lublin, Republic of Poland. The program is implemented by the European Institute for Democracy Support (Warsaw) with the support of the British Embassy in Warsaw. The goal of the project is to improve cooperation between local government bodies of the border regions of Ukraine and Poland in connection with Poland's accession to the European Union in May 2004. The project will be implemented over 1.5 years. Within its framework, a series of trips by Ukrainian local deputies to Poland, a visit by Polish experts to these regions, as well as a 3-week "internship" for one of the Ukrainian deputies in the Polish Sejm of one of the voivodeships are planned. Also within the project, two more parallel programs will be carried out — for Polish and Ukrainian border guards and law enforcement representatives. This trip is the first event for local deputies in this project; the further plan of action will be discussed directly during communication in Poland. The participants of the project are deputies of the Volyn and Lviv regional councils who are responsible for or interested in topics of cross-border cooperation with particular emphasis on cooperation with law enforcement agencies and border guards. Volyn in this trip is represented by 2 deputies of the regional council, members of the deputy faction "Our Ukraine": Pasaman Mykola Mykolaiovych (member of the standing deputy commission on issues of spirituality, education, science, culture, religions, mass media, relations with public organizations and political parties) and Zhghutov Volodymyr Volodymyrovych (member of the standing deputy commission on issues of social protection of the population, labor resources, family, youth, sports and tourism). The trip program includes meetings with deputies, voivodes (heads of executive power at the regional level) of the Lublin and Rzeszów voivodeships, the leadership of the police of these two voivodeships for the purpose of discussing possible directions of cooperation between these two Polish and Ukrainian regions. The organizers plan that the schedule will consist of two main forms of work — meetings and joint "brainstorming" sessions of Ukrainian and Polish deputies.