World Day of Sister Cities
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One of the old town streets.
The World Federation of Sister Cities, an international non-governmental organization, was founded in Paris on April 28, 1957.
It was founded by representatives of sister cities in Aix-les-Bains (France) and in 1970 already united up to 1,000 cities in more than 50 countries of Europe, Asia, Africa and America.
The first agreement on friendship and cooperation between the cities of the allied countries in the anti-Hitler coalition was signed in 1942 between Stalingrad and English Coventry - cities almost completely destroyed by the war.
The WFPH headquarters are in Paris.
In 1962, on the initiative of the World Federation of twin cities, it was decided to celebrate every year, since 1963, on the last Sunday of April, the World Day of twin cities.
In 1964, the Soviet twin cities merged into the Association for Relations between Soviet and Foreign Cities. It joined the Union of Soviet Friendship Societies (SSOD) and was a collective member of the World Federation of Sister Cities (WFG).
By 2000, the federation had more than 3,500 cities in more than 160 countries.
Moscow was one of the first to establish broad ties. Today it actively cooperates with dozens of foreign capitals. Nine Moscow districts are friendly with suburbs and districts of the capitals of France and England.
Leningrad is friends with Osaka, Manchester, Hamburg, Bombay, Volgograd - with Coventry, Port Said, Hiroshima, Dijon, Kiev - with Tampere, Kyoto, Florence, Baku - with the capital of Senegal Dakar.
The twin cities exchange delegations, exhibition expositions, transfer information about urban management to each other.
Sister cities of Baku
Baku has been a member of the World Federation of Twin Cities since 1978. Twin cities of Baku:
Dakar (Senegal), Izmir (Turkey), Naples (Italy), Tabriz (Iran), Houston (USA), Basra (Iraq), Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Vung Tau-Kondao (Vietnam).
Cities with which it has partnerships:
Mainz (Germany), Aberdeen (Scotland), Stavanger (Norway)
Cities with which it has connections at different levels: Paris, Berlin, Istanbul, Vienna, Chendu and Karamai (PRC), Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tbilisi, Kiev, Minsk, Volgograd, Ulyanovsk, Astana, Tashkent.
Baku has Dakar Square, Naples and Sarajevo streets.
In Dakar there is a square "Baku", in Naples Baku street, Vangtau-Kandaud hotel "Baku".