On March 23, a working meeting was held by the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine for Agro-Industrial Complex Ivan Kyrylenko with the participation of representatives of Derzhkomrezerv, DAK UkhLib and the Department of Agriculture of the Volyn Regional State Administration. This was reported by the press secretary of People's Deputy Serhiy Slabenko, Lyubov Haranina. As became known during the meeting, in October a government telegram arrived in Volyn proposing to purchase grain for the State Reserve at a price of 1200 UAH per ton. At that time, the regional state administration could no longer take advantage of this opportunity, because the harvest of Volyn farmers, at the initiative of the executive authorities, had been sold much earlier at significantly lower prices to intermediary commercial structures as private property. Present at the meeting, People's Deputy of Ukraine Serhiy Slabenko proposed returning to the intermediaries between Volyn peasants and the State Reserve the price difference, taking into account last autumn's prices and the market price of bread that had formed six months later. The latter, in turn, should make appropriate changes to the grain purchase and sale agreements in the direction of increasing the price of grain purchased in Volyn villages in autumn 2003 and in this way return the funds to the peasants. This will be correct and fair with respect to the deceived farmers, believes People's Deputy Serhiy Slabenko. Official explanations regarding the real situation on the Volyn grain market during the working meeting with the Vice Prime Minister were provided by the deputy head of the regional state administration, Halyna Yakymchuk. According to its results, the Department of Agriculture of the Volyn Regional State Administration must conduct a full audit and calculations of prices on the Volyn grain market over the past 9 months and sell the unsold grain from the regional resource according to the scheme proposed by Serhiy Slabenko, returning the price difference to the farmers of Volyn.