On December 25, 2003, in Lutsk, in the oval hall of the regional state administration, with the participation of the head of the regional council Vasyl Dmytruk, the fourth session of the Youth Parliament of Volyn was held. During the period since September 1999, when this union of youth organizations was founded, it has managed to unite almost 40 regional youth and children's organizations, among which are organizations of the Union of Young Civil Servants of Ukraine, the Union of Youth of the Regions of Ukraine, the Association for the Protection of Youth Rights of Volyn, the Ukrainian Social Democratic Youth, the association of studying youth "Zarevo", the Union of Agrarian Youth, the Committee of Young Voters, the Ukrainian Student Union, the People's Democratic League of Youth, the Forum of Young Deputies of Volyn, "Young Democrats", "Christian Democratic Youth", the Young Rukh of Volyn, and others. According to its Statute and the signed Cooperation Agreement with the head of the regional council, the union not only represents the interests of the region's youth movement in all-Ukrainian youth structures and the interests of the region's youth organizations in local self-government bodies and state authorities, but also participates in the formation and implementation of youth programs, analyzes, develops and submits draft normative acts to state authorities and local self-government bodies that will promote the development of the region and take into account the point of view of youth, exercises public control over the implementation of laws of Ukraine and executive authority orders on issues concerning youth. Representatives of the Youth Parliament are regularly invited to sessions of the regional council; a Cooperation Agreement has been signed between the Youth Parliament of Volyn and the head of the regional council. At the fourth session of the Youth Parliament of Volyn, representatives of youth organizations heard information from the head of the department for family and youth affairs, Yerii Verbich, regarding support in 2003 at the expense of the regional budget for projects and events of youth organizations, information regarding lending for youth housing construction in the region, discussed the Regional Program for Training and Involving Youth in Civil Service for 2003-2008, approved the activity program for 2004, the Rules of Procedure and the Regulations on the Presidium. The newly elected head of the Youth Parliament of Volyn became the head of the Youth Administration of Volyn Oblast and the head of the Young Rukh of Volyn, Valerii Liashuk. His first deputy was elected the head of the pioneer organization Sydoruk Stepan, and deputy - the head of the regional organization Ukrainian Social Democratic Youth Filiuk Stepan. At the session, a control and audit commission was also elected and a number of decisions were adopted regarding the financing of projects and programs of youth organizations in 2004, the need to develop a regional program for involving youth in service in local self-government bodies, and others. In January, a meeting of the Coordination Council of the Youth Parliament of Volyn is planned, at which the head of the secretariat and the number and personal composition of the standing commissions of the Youth Parliament will be approved.