The Coordination Council of the Volyn Association of Village Committees supported the decision of the Volyn Regional Council dated 23.11.2004 on recognizing Viktor Yushchenko as President of Ukraine and declared support for Yushchenko in the villages of Volyn region. This is stated in the statement of the Coordination Council of the Volyn Association of Village Committees. "Given the expression of will by the residents of Volyn region during the presidential elections of Ukraine on November 21, 2004, and the mass falsifications of election results in the East of the country, the Volyn Association of Village Committees supports the decision of the Volyn Regional Council dated 23.11.2004 on recognizing Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko as President of Ukraine and declares support for Viktor Yushchenko in the villages of Volyn region," the statement says. The Volyn Association of Village Committees is also "concerned about the tension in the country, aware of the need to protect the interests of its choice, the future of its children" and appeals to Ukrainian peasants: "to hold peasant gatherings, sessions of village councils calling for support of the people's President, to organize strike committees of the people's resistance movement in the villages of Volyn region, to organize departments of rural self-defense, people's guards of order to maintain order and counter provocations, and to be ready for an organized people's resistance movement at the call of the Coordination Council." The Coordination Council of the Volyn Association of Village Committees asks to report on the creation of village and strike committees of the region and to obtain the methodology of work by phone in the city of Lutsk: 77-28-74.