“The international partner cities movement has played a significant part in building trust and mutual understanding between peoples, creating real opportunities for expanding economic and cultural ties and enabling the effective implementation of educational programmes for many decades now,” the President’s telegram reads. “Russian and German partner cities are active, interested and effective participants in this public initiative.
Your meeting will go over the rich experience of work together that you have built up, take stock of the results of the Days of Germany that took place in the Russian regions in 2004 and, of course, discuss plans for your future cooperation in all different areas. I am sure that this forum will help to strengthen business and personal contacts and help develop Russian-German relations in general”.