Over the past three years, the foreign trade turnover between Volyn Oblast and the Republic of Belarus has grown 4.5 times and last year reached 42 million US dollars. In the first quarter of this year, the trade turnover amounted to 7.5 million dollars, which constitutes only 3.5% of the oblast's total foreign trade indicator. These figures were cited by the head of the Volyn Oblast State Administration, Volodymyr Bondar, during a meeting of the heads of the border regions of Ukraine and Belarus, which is taking place in Volyn. This was reported on May 31 by a ZIK correspondent.   The volume of export deliveries between Volyn and Belarus in the first quarter of this year increased by 31%, while imports somewhat decreased. In the list of products supplied to the Belarusian market, almost a third accounts for machine building, with 20% each for the chemical industry and agricultural products.   As noted by the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Belarus in Ukraine, Valentyn Velychko, the foreign trade turnover between the two countries over the past three years has grown threefold and last year amounted to more than 2 billion 186 million dollars. However, only a fifth of economic relations accounts for the border regions, cooperation between which yields the greatest benefit.   Today, the participants of the meeting continue their work at the "Lisova Pisnya" sanatorium in Shatsk district. The parties are discussing opportunities for developing the joint section of the Ukrainian-Belarusian border, arranging border infrastructure, problems and prospects of cross-border cooperation, in particular regarding the deepening of bilateral interaction under the "Bug" and "Dnipro" Euroregions and regarding cooperation in the field of environmental protection.   The result of the meeting will be the signing of a final protocol on intensifying cooperation between neighboring countries in various spheres of public life.