The President of Rzeszów explained his passion for foreign delegations

President of Rzeszów Konrad Fijołek explained himself from foreign trips during the Tuesday council session. Your and city officials. He said it was an element of local government diplomacy.

“This is not a trip office, as it may seem to some. This is a difficult service, not easy. In local government diplomacy, the principles and conditions in which it takes place, you also need to understand what to do it,” said President Fijołek at the beginning of his speech.

A detailed list and costs of foreign delegations of the president and employees of the City Hall was previously demanded by councilors of the Together club for Rzeszów and the Law and Justice Club. It was one of the conditions for adopting a budget resolution for 2025.

On Tuesday, President Fijołek for 3.5 hours talked about all travels in detail and convinced why they were important to the city. The list includes 64 delegations that took place since January last year.

President Fijołek explained that these were trips to the partner cities of Rzeszów, business meetings and resulting from the strategic character of the city in connection with the change of geopolitical role.

“In local government diplomacy, in international activity, nothing happens on the snap. Somewhere and suddenly +Pyk +, arranged. I return, I carry a sack of money. In Rzeszów, it happened to us that we also brought this bag too, but this is a long -term building of relationships” – emphasized the president of Rzeszów later.

The presentation depicting the city that the president and city officials will visit began with Brussels. At the beginning of January last year, in the European Parliament, Rzeszów organized a photo exhibition documenting actions taken in connection with the refugee crisis after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. The most numerous, over 40-person delegation went there.

The list of subsequent countries and cities includes: Uppsala, Cannes, Nice, France, Berlin, Bucharest, Antwerp, Belgium, Sevilla, Spain, Nyireregyhaza, Praga, Valencia, Barcelona, ​​Milan, London, Munich, Truskawiec, Kiev and, among others Lviv.

The most distant and attractive places to which they traveled were: China, Taiwan, the United States and Canada. There were a total of 11 such trips.

After the presentation, the councilors wanted to ask the president questions, but the councilor from the Citizens' Coalition Club Andrzej Dec submitted a formal application to transfer the discussion to later. “Either moving it to the penultimate point of today's agenda, or to the next session” – suggested Dec. In the vote, the councilors decided that they would abstain until the end of Tuesday's session. (PAP)

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