DUSHANBE, November 12, 2010, Asia-Plus — On Thursday November 11, Dushanbe Mayor Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloyev received a delegation from the German city of Reutlingen, which is Dushanbe’s sister city.
Shavkat Saidov, a spokesman for the Dushanbe mayor’s office, says the Reutlingen delegation arrived in Dushanbe to take part in events dedicated to a Week of Germany in Tajikistan.
The Dushanbe mayor, who visited Reutlingen for the first time in 1996, highly appraised organization of municipal services of the city and expressed confidence that exchange of experience between Dushanbe and Reutlingen in that area would be useful for both cities.
Ubaidulloyev invited Reutlingen Mayoress Barbara Bosch (Oberburgermeister) to attend the forum of Dushanbe’s sister cities that will take place in the Tajik capital in 2014 on the occasion of the 90th of the declaration of Dushanbe the capital of Tajikistan.
German Ambassador to Tajikistan Doris Hertrampf and Reutlingen municipal government representative Suze Gnant expressed gratitude to the Dushanbe mayor for a warm welcome and noted that they would take efforts to promote development of relations between the two sister cities in the fields of culture, education and municipal services, the spokesman said.
Reutlingen is a city in southern Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is the capital of the eponymous district of Reutlingen. Reutlingen has a university of applied sciences, which was founded in 1855, originally as a weaver”s school. Today Reutlingen is home to an established textile industry and also houses machinery, leather goods and steel manufacturing facilities.
We will recall that Dushanbe and Reutlingen became sister cities on October 5, 1991.
In all, 14 cities around the world are the Dushanbe’s sister cities:
Lusaka, Zambia (1966);
Sana”a, Yemen (June 25, 1967); Monastir, Tunisia (November 24, 1967); Klagenfurt, Austria (1972);
Lahore, Pakistan (September 15, 1976);
Boulder, USA (May 8, 1987); Mazar-i Sahrif,
Afghanistan (July 13, 1991);
Reutlingen, Germany (October 5, 1991);
St. Petersburg, Russia (October 6, 1991);
Shiraz, Iran (February 16, 1992);
Minsk, Belarus (July 21, 1998);
Urumqi, China (September 10, 1999);
Tehran, Iran (March 12, 2001); and
Ankara, Turkey (December 11, 2003).
