President of the Eurasian branch of the world organization “United
cities and local governments” (UCLG), mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin held a
meeting of the regional Council of the association. The agenda included a
report on the activities of the office in 2018-2019, nominations for the World
Council and Executive Bureau for the UCLG-Eurasia, issues relating to the holding
of the next meeting of the Council regional offices, etc.
During the discussion of candidates for the regional and chief
UCLG offices Ilsur Metshin noted that the Eurasian office is ready to work
productively and develop related areas. “We know and can do what is required
here”, - he stressed.
“A lot of work has been done. Eurasia continues to implement
the sustainable development goals. We have chosen the right way-to promote it
through the cities of Russia and Kazakhstan. Today we can definitely say that
the cities hear us, which means that Eurasia is working well”, - said the
Vice-President of the UCLG-Eurasia, head of Astrakhan Alyona Gubanova.
In addition, it was decided to hold the next meeting of the
UCLG-Eurasia on June 26, 2020 in Yakutsk.