On July 4, at the weekly operational meeting at the Volyn Regional State Administration, its head Volodymyr Bondar introduced to the regional officials their new colleague Andriy Lomaha. Mr. Lomaha is currently officially the acting head of the Department of International Cooperation and European Integration. This department was formed on the basis of the former department of foreign relations and foreign economic activity. According to Volodymyr Bondar, despite his youth, Andriy Lomaha has considerable work experience, as he worked both in the administration and in the Ministry of Economy in Kyiv. For him, the governor immediately outlined the main areas of work. Namely, establishing contacts across all verticals of power with representatives of other countries. Mr. Bondar noted that Volyn's main strategic partner in the near future should become neighboring Poland, since even the Presidents of both countries have drawn their attention to the expediency of cooperation between border regions. Therefore, while in Poland at an economic forum, the governor agreed with the Lublin Voivode that a special interdepartmental group would be involved in the next Polish-Ukrainian meeting. This group, according to the head, will present its own options for cooperation and will develop its specific directions. Mr. Lomaha is to organize such trips to all neighboring Polish voivodeships, since the governor wants to see real results of cooperation. In addition, the head of the region advised Mr. Lomaha to pay attention to the problem of border crossings, the problem of transport corridors and to seek specific ways to solve them. After all, the idle talk that has taken place until recently must turn into a concrete result, because the level of trade turnover between Volyn and Poland that currently exists should not satisfy us at present.