On June 21, 2005, a press conference was held by representatives of the Volyn Association of Rural Leaders and the Volyn Farmers' Association following the results of a joint coordination meeting of representatives. Representatives of the Volyn Association of Rural Leaders and the Association of Farmers of Ukraine at a joint meeting of their representatives expressed the idea of the need to unite the efforts of the organizations to protect the interests of the region's peasants. The participants of the meeting named the problem of milk procurement from the population as the first problem requiring joint participation. Not a single step towards the economic demands of the peasants was made by Volyn processors, despite the tough position of the region's peasants. Even the noticeable indicator of milk non-delivery could not push the milk processors to make concessions. Proposals of the processors However, the organizers of the peasant movement for their rights took into account the constructive position of the head of the Volyn Regional Administration, Volodymyr Bondar, to continue the negotiation process and decided to postpone the announcement of a long-term strike. The coordination meeting of the Volyn Association of Rural Leaders and the Volyn Farmers' Association announces its intentions to cooperate in economic assistance to the village and announces further steps:

Announce the stage of joint preparation for a long-term peasant strike for the rights of peasants.

Send official requests to the regional prosecutor's office, the Antimonopoly Committee, the State Tax Administration, the Inspectorate of Quality and Formation of Resources of Agricultural Products, the State Inspectorate for Price Control in the region.

The requests will concern the following issues:

regarding the verification of the implementation of anticompetitive actions by enterprises of the milk processing industry in the sphere of milk procurement from the population,

regarding compliance with current legislation in milk procurement in the absence of contracts and receipts;

regarding the procedure for cash circulation during operations for the procurement of milk from the population;

regarding the procedure for quality control of products and the procedure for setting prices by the relevant inspectorates;

Convene on June 23 a meeting of the Councils of the Volyn Association of Rural Leaders and the Volyn Farmers' Association regarding the creation of a united strike committee for the protection of peasants' rights. Prepare a joint action plan for the preparation of a long-term strike.

Address the regional state administration regarding assistance in organizing a joint round table of the public, authorities and market entities - on June 24 on the issue of milk procurement from the population.

Send an invitation to participate in the round table to representatives of political parties and deputies of the regional council interested in protecting the interests of the village.

Send an invitation to participate in the round table meeting to people's deputies of Ukraine.

Address the Head of the Volyn Regional State Administration with a request to inform the Prime Minister of Ukraine about the existing problems in the milk procurement market from the population, and the need for the Cabinet of Ministers to discuss this issue.

Demands of the peasant leaders:

To establish by a Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers a lower procurement threshold for the purchase of milk from the population at the level of 1 hryvnia per liter.

For the state administration to develop and provide to the heads of territorial communities model agreements for the purchase of milk from the population.

To establish that the purchase of milk from the population by business entities shall be carried out exclusively by concluding agreements.

"We declare that it is not the peasants but the monopolists - milk processors - who are provoking the holding of peasant strikes. If the process is delayed contrary to the interests of the region's peasants, we will resort to a long-term strike that will shake the milk empire of the monopolists created at the expense of simple peasants.

We cannot and must not allow people in the village to begin to become disillusioned with the results of the revolution. 90% of the votes is a credit of trust to the new President. And it was to him that simple people directed their hopes.

However, the oligarchs of the agro-industrial complex, who recently contributed to the falsification of elections, are still in a comfortable state today, continuing to drive the village to impoverishment. In half a year, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy has not proposed a single economically substantiated concept for the development of rural territories, not a single program aimed at introducing new technologies to increase the profitability of peasant household plots, which produce 80-90% of agricultural products in the region. And this is precisely this indicator and the realities of life in Volyn." – head of the Volyn Association of Rural Leaders Oleh Savchuk