Friday, July 8th, 2005

Mayor of Kitakyushu City Visits TDLC

Reconfirms Kitakyushu City's commitment to GDLN

Mayor Koichi Sueyoshi of Kitakyushu City visited the TDLC on July 8 where he reconfirmed the city's commitment to contributing to solutions for environmental issues through the TDLC.

Mayor Sueyoshi spoke with the TDLC's Partnership and Programs management about how the 2005 Guidelines for Economic and Fiscal Management and Structural Reform from Japan's Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy is highlighting the importance of developing Japan's core regions.

These regions are rapidly coming online in terms of videoconferencing capacity and can connect to global development networks like the GDLN. This creates terrific opportunities to unlock the combined eco-knowledge of Japan's municipalities and to develop knowledge sharing programs that leverage their tremendous expertise to the benefit of developing communities in the region and around the world.

The TDLC looks forward to continued collaboration with Kitakyushu City and to assisting it in its mission of highly effective environmental knowledge transfer.

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