Cotonou, Benin

On เดือนพฤศจิกายน 28 of last year, the mayor of Cotonou and former ประธานาธิบดี of Benin, Mr. Nicéphore Soglo, paid a visit to Yokohama. Cotonou is similar to Yokohama in many ways. years. It is the largest city of Benin, one of its major ports, and has undergone a dramatic population explosion in the last 50 The Beninese delegation ' s visit to Yokohama took the รูปแบบการเขียน of a tour of various facilities in the city and culminated in the two mayors signing a joint statement for การแลกเปลี่ยน and cooperation between Yokohama and Cotonou.

ข่าวสาร But I feel like this needs a little background Development In 2008 was held in Yokohama the 4th Tokyo International Conference on ชาวแอฟริกา ( TICAD IV). การประชุม Thanks to the great success of this แอฟริกา Yokohama acquired considerable visibility with the countries of It is in this context that Cotonou contacted Yokohama with a proposal of intercity cooperation in 2012 As Yokohama was to hold TICAD V the next year-the City identified the slogan " แอฟริกา and Yokohama, Toward Mutual Growth" to the event as it was fast becoming the การทำแบบญี่ปุ่น city most intimately familiar with Africa-it seemed only natural to งานชิ้นนี้ toward establishing cooperation before the end of this commemorative year.

This brings us to เดือนพฤศจิกายน 2013 and to President-Mayor Soglo ' s visit to Yokohama. The Proclamation was concluded on the base of a partnership aiming for mutual growth and the contribution to world peace and development. This kind of joint statement is the orientation Yokohama is taking toward the future of international relations. They strive to address what can be done between cities under a shared principle of mutual growth. Such joint statements have also been concluded with the cities of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel (เดือนกันยายน 2012 ) and Callao, Peru ( March 2013 )

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