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  • Approving and Planning Foreign Travel (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Bob Blackman
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    One final question. Studying your documents there do not seem to be a vast number of trips being planned, for example, to other Commonwealth countries, with which Britain already has very good relations but could be improved. Is there a particular reason why that is the case?

  • Approving and Planning Foreign Travel (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Bob Blackman
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    One of the considerations might be that we have had very clear ones to Cuba, Venezuela etc, which do not strike us as being those areas which would be immediately promoting London as such an important international city. Clearly, that is a priority. Why?

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [42]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    Richard Barnes (AM): That is a bit strange then because Murziline Parchment and her researcher, Christopher Fleming, went to New York to the New York City Cities Conference on 17 January, and the International Relations Unit prepared a briefing note for her which says -,`Tokyo has been a partner city for some time, but the cities are yet to work together on any projects' and that was January 2006 the agreement was reached. `The Governor of Tokyo' - and I quote directly from the briefing note - `Shiin Taro Ishihara is very right wing. Ken and he have met and...

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [50]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    So he was not in New York, and he has not met Mayor Bloomberg?

  • Environmental Impact (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    I just wondered, do you need to do all this travelling for Green issues? We were told that, for example, that Woking was a leading place to go to if you wanted to look at decentralised power generation and, indeed, we employ someone from there to advise us. Would it not be better if you were to seek out examples that were nearer to home and, if necessary, where other world cities have done good jobs, perhaps you seek to bring some of their people over here and employ them in the way that you did with Bob Kiley [former...

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    Can you help me? What is a partnership agreement, which I understand London has entered into with a number of cities?

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    That was a very brief meeting with Tokyo. If you actually look at the Mayor's report, it is overwhelmingly left wing communist party members that he has met.

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    Havana, Caracas, Beijing, Moscow.

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [6]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    No, but they are certainly left wing are they not?

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [7]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    Can I read also from this briefing note that went to Ms Parchment and her researcher, Christopher Fleming, in only January of this year: `London and New York talk to each other and have good relationships but do not tend to work on a huge number of projects together. On last meeting Bloomberg was too busy to meet the Mayor and John Ross.' So you must have been there at some stage. `Possible relation to bad reputation amongst Jewish press. In addition bad relations between Jewish community and Richard Rodgers may have played a part (meeting of Palestinians in RR...