By Egle Deltuvaite

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TWINNING MORE THAN 11

• By Egle Deltuvaite
• Head of International Relations, Business
  Development and Tourism Division
• Department of Investments and Economics
• Klaipeda City Municipality Administration

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Why Cities cooperate?

• Cooperation
• Opens doors for people and ideas
• Eliminates dividing lines
• Improves administration and management
• Help overcoming problems
• Contributes to national foreign policy
• Promotes stability and peace
• Benefitial for both parties

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Values of City diplomacy

• Respect
• Tolerance
• Solidarity
• Democracy
• Rule of law
• Stability
• and Peace

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European Charter of Local Self Governance

• Article 10 - Local authorities right to
  associate
• Entitled to co-operate, form consortia in order
  to carry out tasks of common interest.
• Right - recognised in each state.
• Possibility to act Local and go Global.

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Goals of Twinning

• Reform and change
• Promotion of the city
• Propagation of national culture
• Education of employees
• Active citizenship

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Perpetuation

• Twin-cities within Your City
• Liepaja street (Latvia)
• Debrecen street (Hungary)
• Karlskrona street (Sweden)
• Mogiliov street (Belarus)
• Karlskrona Square (Sweden)
• Blekinge oaks (Sweden)
• Sakura trees (Kuji, Japan)

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Twin-cities joining a wider family

• Union of the Baltic Cities
• Cruise Baltic
• European Cities against Drugs
• WHO Healthy Cities Network
• KIMO
• Sail Training International
• Baltic Sail
• Mayors for Peace
• EUROCITIES

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Twin-cities joining a wider family

• Union of the Baltic Cities

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TALL SHIPS RACES
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and there are NO Borders

• Year 1995
• Global Sister Cities Congress, the Hague
• Kuji Klaipeda cooperation recognized as one of
  the most interesting Twin-city cooperation
  examples in the world.

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and it comes with Recognition

• THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE AWARDS
• for international cooperation
  

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Conclusions

• Municipalities Engines for Change
• Broadens the world perception and develops
  healthy self-criticism
• Overcoming current challenges shapes the future
• Benefits for the whole community
• Contributes to maturity of citizenship society

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Conclusions

• International cooperation in fact is about
• Your own State, Nation and Country which We know
  and wish Others to know,
• about a state We Believe in and wish Others
  believe it.
• Cooperation makes work and life interesting.

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Thank You!