An extraordinary reporting and election conference of the Volyn regional organization of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine will be held in September this year, which will elect a new head. This decision was made by the plenum of the Board of the Volyn Regional Organization of the NUJU, which took place yesterday, June 30, – reported the own correspondent of the Western Information Corporation.

Due to the fact that the former head of the Volyn Regional Organization of the NUJU, Anatoliy Yakubyuk, resigned early due to health reasons, the plenum of the Board of the Volyn Regional Organization of the NUJU decided to convene an extraordinary reporting and election conference to elect a new head in September this year.

The plenum considered proposals for measures aimed at implementing the State Program for Support of Journalists for 2004-2010, and approved 5 candidates of veteran journalists for receiving personal scholarships from the head of the Volyn Regional State Administration in 2006.

The plenum supported the proposal of the acting head of the Volyn Regional Organization of the NUJU, Volodymyr Danylyuk, to create a Commission on Journalistic Ethics in the region. An initiative group has currently been elected, which is to submit a draft regulation on such a commission at the reporting and election conference on September 8.