(Kazan City
KZN.RU, July 31, Albert Murtazin). In Kazan the General Assembly of the
Eurasian branch of the World Organization "United Cities and Local
Governments", chaired by Co-President of UCLG, the president of the
Eurasian department of the organization, the Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin,
started its work. The General Assembly is taking place these minutes in the
Kazan City Hall.
The meeting
is attended by mayors and representatives of 80 cities of Russia and abroad.
The Assembly will elect a president, vice-presidents and the Council of the
Eurasian section of UCLG, wil hear a report on the activities of the
organization for 2012-2015, and will take a number of organizational decisions.
In
addition, results of the rating of the international activity of the cities
will be presented to the congress participants. Recall that in August of the
last year, at the meeting of the Board of the Eurasian section of UCLG in the
city of Aktau in Kazakhstan, it was decided to establish such rating. The
initiative was supported at the global level at a meeting of senior management
of the World Organization of UCLG in Barcelona in February 2015.