At the initiative of the Volyn Regional Organization of the political party "People's Union Our Ukraine," a round table was held on October 15 to discuss the Anti-Corruption Program "No to Corruption!", which was announced at the beginning of October by the Presidium of the Party Council. The "No to Corruption" program was initiated not only to overcome this phenomenon but also to prevent the possibility of corrupt actions arising. \n \nRepresentatives of regional authorities, public organizations, and mass media discussed the anti-corruption program at the round table meeting. The discussion was attended by the First Deputy Head of the Volyn Regional State Administration, Bohdan Shyba, who sees the main social cause of the corruption disease not in legislative deregulation but in the fact that a unified approach to persons engaged in corrupt actions has not been created at all levels. After all, under anti-corruption legislation, not a single parliamentarian has been held accountable, whereas "the lowest-level official is subject to punishment for an incorrectly written word in an ordinary certificate." \t \n \n \tThe Deputy Head of the Executive Committee of the VO "People's Union Our Ukraine," Head of the Center for Political Analysis and Electoral Consulting Mykhailo Nakhod emphasized the only correct decision of the President regarding sending the "Law on the Status of Deputies of Local Councils" to the Constitutional Court in order to finally put an end to this issue and stop any speculation on this matter. However, local council deputies themselves do not approve of the prospect of "immunity," since this would undermine voters' trust and could become a temptation to "become a deputy" for people who have problems with the law. One of the main points of "Our Ukraine's" anti-corruption program is the removal of deputy immunity not only from local council deputies, which is guaranteed to them by the law adopted by parliament, but also from Verkhovna Rada deputies. \n \n\tAnatoliy Parkhomyuk, Director of the Center for Municipal Reforms "Lutsk-1432," noted that a fertile field for corrupt actions is the issuance of permits by authorities for conducting entrepreneurial activity and providing services to the population. In Volyn, in particular, 92% of unified permit offices have been established, but a comprehensive and effective solution to this problem, in his opinion, is not observed. \n \n"Our Ukraine" advocates for conducting an independent analysis of draft laws and government decisions, establishing open access to information on the circulation of budget funds in state institutions, and requiring high-ranking officials to declare not only their income but also their expenditures. \n \nThe round table participants also discussed the creation of a unified testing center for applicants to higher educational institutions in order to make bribes during admission to universities impossible. \nThe discussion of the Anti-Corruption Program was also attended by the First Deputy Head of the Kivertsi District State Administration, Deputy of the Volyn Regional Council Volodymyr Zhhutov, Head of the Center for Youth Public Organizations of Volyn "Our Cause" Vladyslav Stemkovskyi, Vice-Rector of Volyn State University for Humanitarian Affairs, Head of the Lutsk City Organization of the "People's Union Our Ukraine" Mykola Suryak. The participants expressed a number of proposals that will be included in the Anti-Corruption Program. On November 12, 2005, the program "No to Corruption!" will be submitted for consideration to the congress of the party "People's Union Our Ukraine." The political party "Our Ukraine" will propose implementing all developments in the regions through legislative initiative — through its faction in parliament. \n