Odesa signed agreements on establishing partnership relations with the cities of Miami and Miami Beach (USA).

Odesa Mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov announced this on social media.

According to him, Odesa together with Miami and Miami Beach are starting to cooperate in the economic, trade, scientific and educational, social and cultural, tourism and sports sectors.

Gennadiy Trukhanov also reported that preliminary agreements had been reached with Javier Joven, Mayor of the American city of Odessa (Texas), regarding future cooperation between the two cities.

In March, the Ministry for Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine initiated the International Marathon of Local Self-Government, aimed at drawing the attention of the world's municipalities to the tragedy of Ukrainian municipalities and activating the process of establishing sisterly relations.

In the coming days, MinRegion plans to launch the “Partnership for Recovery and Development”, which is being developed together with international technical assistance projects, on the Decentralization portal. It is planned that the platform will become not only informative, but also an auxiliary tool for local self-government bodies in the search for and establishment of sister relations with foreign municipalities. Please follow the announcements on the portal.