(Kazan City
KZN.RU, May 26, Zilya Gayfi). In the exhibition center "Kazan Fair" a
meeting of the Executive Bureau of the World Organization "United Cities
and Local Governments" opened. The event is attended by the President of
Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, RT State Council Chairman Farid Mukhametshin,
Mayor of Kazan, President of the Eurasian department and co-president of UCLG
Ilsur Metshin, Secretary General of UCLG Joseph Roig, Co-President of UCLG,
Mayor of Victoria Jacqueline Moustache-Bel, a professor, an economist and
author of the theory of creative class Richard Florida and others.
Ilsur
Metshin greeted the participants and guests of the meeting - more than 200
representatives of the 97 municipalities of the world, noting that Kazan has a
great honor to host an event of this magnitude. "The headquarters of the
Eurasian section of UCLG, which includes more than 300 cities and 12 countries,
where 300 million people live, is located in Kazan. Some of you have had the
idea of Russia as a harsh country; these representations are formed in the
past. Kazan is a cosmopolitan city; a permanent dialogue between cultures and
religions is underway here. Just as UCLG, Kazan unites cities in different
parts of the world. On behalf of all the cities of Eurasia I thank the Supreme
Council of UCLG for the decision to hold the Executive Bureau of the World
Organization in our city. This is the most important event of the year, both
for the country and for the whole of Eurasia. I hope that the work of the
Executive Office will be remembered as a memorable and productive"- the
Mayor of Kazan said.
The meeting
of the Executive Bureau of UCLG is held in Kazan on the eve of the third World
Summit of Local and Regional Authorities, which will be held in the capital of
Colombia - Bagota in October 2016. At a meeting of the Executive Bureau in
Kazan the main measures to prepare for the summit will be outlined.
A live
webcast of the meeting of the Executive Bureau of UCLG in Kazan is at the RT
Government portal.