Lutsk delegation visited the partner city of Bandirma in Turkey
On 25-28 May the official delegation of Lutsk, headed by the First Deputy Mayor Taras Yakovlev visited the city of Bandirma (Turkish Republic) and participated in the 27th International Festival of Culture and Tourism "Birds paradise". The delegation included also Member of Lutsk City Council Kostiantyn Petrochuk.
The peculiarity of this year’s festival consisted in the festive walk of Mayor of Bandirma Dursun Mirza, Members of Bandirma City Council, foreign delegations, Bandirma citizens and the folk dancing and singing groups – the festival participants – to the central part of the city, where the festive opening of the event took place.
On the main stage of the celebrations the First Deputy Mayor Taras Yakovlev performed a speech. He conveyed greetings from Lutsk Mayor Mykola Romaniuk, members of Lutsk City Council and Lutsk citizens, thanked for the warm reception and wished love, peace and welfare to everyone.
For the second time the culture of Lutsk and Volyn region was presented by songs and dances of our best artists. This year we were at a high level presented by performances of a vocal trio: Tetiana Tsihotska, Oksana Shtemburska, Tetiana Soroka, vocal quartet «Akord»: Andrii Zarytskyi, Viktor Mrochko, Oleh Hontar, members of the folk dancing group “Dzereltse” of Lutsk school 25.
During the solemn meeting with Bandirma City Mayor Dursun Mirza the possible ways of cooperation between Bandirma and Lutsk were discussed.
For foreign delegations excursions to large industrial entreprises of Bandirma, were organized. Guests had the possibility to get acquainted with production of boron, construction of feed mills, manufacturing of packaging and metal cans.
For information: On 23 January 2015 Lutsk and Bandirma signed Memorandum on Cooperation.