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On March 23–26, 2011, a delegation headed by Mr Kuma Demeksa, Mayor of the capital city of Addis Ababa, visited St.Petersburg.
The purpose of the visit was establishing the partnership with St.Petersburg and attracting St.Petersburg’s investments in the Ethiopian capital.
On March 25 at Smolny, I.M. Metelskiy, Vice-Governor of St.Petersburg, met with Mr Kuma Demeksa at Smolny. The sides discussed the issues of cooperation in a wide range of areas of the economy, municipal economy, social life. The Mayor of Addis Ababa expressed the interest in using the experience of St.Petersburg in providing the urban amenities, waste management, and city policies on transport infrastructure and public transportation systems. The leaders of the cities welcomed the idea of concluding an agreement on friendly cooperation between the Government of St.Petersburg and the City Government of Addis Ababa. The agreements reached were recorded in a special protocol on results of negotiations.
During the sojourn in St.Petersburg, the delegation of Addis Ababa held the official talks at the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg and meetings with the Committee on the Improvement of St.Petersburg and Committees on Transport and Transport-Transit policy.
With interest, the delegation studied the display of the international exhibition “Ecology of Large Cities” at the Complex Lenexpo, visited the Oriental Faculty of St.Petersburg State University and Petersburg State Transport University, met with Ethiopian students, trainees, representatives of national diaspora.
Within the framework of cultural program of sojourn in our city, the Ethiopian side especially appreciated the visit to the museum-apartment of Alexander Pushkin, emphasizing the great Russian poet belonging to the Ethiopian land as of his origin, and the genetic love of the people of Ethiopia to the creations of Alexander Pushkin.
News Source: St.Petersburg Committee for External Relations