Received a statement from the Twinning Association via Kabbie Langford at the City Council's communications office which we have posted in full below.
Unfortunately the twinning association has declined to take up the city council's resolution to twin with Gaza City and has passed the buck back to the council.
The leader of the Labour group and the chief exec are in a meeting now and will be releasing a statement imminently. Don't hold out much hope that they will follow through on the resolution, but you never know...
Unfortunately the twinning association has declined to take up the city council's resolution to twin with Gaza City and has passed the buck back to the council.
The leader of the Labour group and the chief exec are in a meeting now and will be releasing a statement imminently. Don't hold out much hope that they will follow through on the resolution, but you never know...
At its meeting on March 9th, the Executive Committee of the City of
Worcester Twinning Association agreed on the following response to
Worcester City Council:
"As is well known to the world, the City of Worcester Twinning
Association received an invitation from Worcester City Council "to
consider a twinning arrangement with Gaza City".
The Executive Committee appreciates the understandable desire to express sympathy with the sufferings of the people, and especially the children, of Gaza City but does not believe that a twinning arrangement is the most appropriate or practical means of meeting their humanitarian needs.
The Association is a voluntary, self-funded body and has neither the
resources not the competences to embark on the complex arrangements that
would be needed to set up a meaningful relationship with Gaza City even
if it were to be established that the people of Gaza City wished it and
were able to reciprocate in most of the activities required to
constitute an active twinning link.
Without such prospects for the foreseeable future, we consider that this
proposal does not meet the criteria for a genuinely successful twinning
at the present time.
The decision whether or not to proceed with an official twinning must,
of course, rest with the Council but we regret our inability, in this
instance, to take on such a responsibility on its behalf in addition to
those links for which we currently accept full organisational
responsibility.
This, of course, does not prevent the Council from organising and
funding a formal link with Gaza City if both potential partners want to
give effect to the Council's apparent wish for this."
Nevill Swanson.
Chairman.
City of Worcester Twinning Association.
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