Label
Council Members McPherson and Morris
Title
Recognizing October 14, 2023 as Sister Cities International Day.
Summary
WHEREAS, Sister Cities International was founded as a presidential initiative by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on September 11, 1956 at the White House Conference on citizen diplomacy to create more community-led global relationships so that people of different cultures could appreciate their differences and build partnerships that would lessen the chance of new international conflicts; and
WHEREAS, Sister Cities International Day is a fitting occasion to commemorate the impact that this organization has made in building bridges across nations, cities, and communities around the globe in order to create and sustain world peace; and
WHEREAS, there is no better day to celebrate the birth of the modern sister cities movement than on the birth day of its founder, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, on October 14; and
WHEREAS, Sister Cities International currently has 345-member cities, counties, and states with relationships with 1,800 communities in 138 countries on six continents; and
WHEREAS, Sister Cities International in recent years has held several bilateral and regional sister cities summits to strengthen existing and expanding new sister city relationships in places like Ireland, Mexico, Russia, China, and across the African continent; and
WHEREAS, Sister Cities International will be holding its next regional summit-the All-Americas Sister Cities Summit-in San Antonio, Texas, on May 28-31, 2024; and
WHEREAS, the City of Toledo is proud to be part of a global network of sister city partnerships with Coburg, Germany; Coimbatore, India; Hyderabad, Pakistan; Londrina, Brazil; Nanchong, China; Poznan, Poland; Qinhuangdao, China; Szeged, Hungary; Tanga, Tanzania; Toledo, Spain; and Toyohashi, Japan; and
WHEREAS, sister city relationships include educational, economic, cultural, municipal,...
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