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Wednesday, 02 April 2008 10:41 |
 Mongolian officials from Erdenet
spent this past weekend visiting their sister city, Fairbanks, Alaska
in the USA.
The visit follows the signing
of sister city pacts last October when Mongolian President N. Enkhbayar
visited Alaska.
Erdenet mayor, Gaadan Sharkhuu,
along with other Mongolian dignitaries including an army colonel and
a college professor, spent the weekend visiting universities, hospitals
and other institutions that could provide the basis for future exchanges.
Like Erdenet, Fairbanks is
located in the middle of a landlocked area with an economy largely based
upon mining. It also contends with the same long winters noted for their
ferocity.
Asked what Erdenet and Fairbanks
have in common, Sharkhuu told the Fairbanks News Miner, “I am looking
more at the similarities than differences.”
Similarities between cities
included, said Sharkhuu, “…for example, there is very big land,
population and very nice people. The differences are the environment.
Here, there is still a lot of snow.”
Fairbanks business official,
Michelle Roberts, said of the group, “They are an emerging Third World
country with a lot of resources but not necessarily the technology to
get to those resources without a lot of effort…..You can already see
the wheels turning on how this can help them and advance what they’re
doing.”
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