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Ilsur Metshin takes part in the meeting of the UCLG's Executive Bureau in Madrid
(KZN.RU, April 19). The meeting of the Executive Bureau of the United Cities and Local Government (UCLG) is held in Madrid, where the heads of cities from all over the world take part. Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, the President of the UCLG Eurasian Branch, represents Tatarstan at the international forum in the Spanish capital.
Evgenia Lodvigova, the deputy head of the Kazan Municipality, and Daria Sannikova, the director of the Tourism Promotion Committee of the Executive Committee, joined the Tatarstan delegation. Aisen Nikolaev, the Vice President of the UCLG Eurasian branch and the Mayor of Yakutsk, Alexei Shaposhnikov, the chairman of the Moscow City Duma, and others also take part in the meeting.
The participants of the meeting will consider strategic priorities for 2016-2019 and joint actions for the implementation of UCLG projects. Discussions are planned in main areas of the strategy of the world organization, on partnership issues and the contribution of the UCLG to international processes. The discussion will focus on the policy, in particular, the renewal of the partnership between the UCLG and the European Union for 2018-2020, the implementation of projects in the field of climate and sustainability, organizational issues of the UCLG Peace Prize and the UCLG Cultural Summit.
The World Organization “United Cities and Local Governments” is a voluntary international merger of associations, unions, and individual municipalities, established in 2004. The UCLG is the most powerful and influential organization in the world in the field of international cooperation for cities. The organization aims to strengthen cooperation of local governments and represents their interests on the world stage.
For today, the UCLG brings together more than 1000 cities and associations of the world and represents more than 70% of the world population. The UCLG consists of seven regional branches: Africa, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Eurasia, Latin America, Middle East, North America, as well as the department of “Metropolis”, which brought together 137 capitals and major cities from all around the world.