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REPORT

on the 3rd Conference of the Danube Regions and Cities held in Vidin (Bulgaria), from 6th to 8th September 2007
 
 The Vice President of the Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina and the President of the Danube Bureau Council in Novi Sad/Vojvodina participated in the conference and chaired the plenary session. Together with Mr.Sandor Egeresi, the conference was chaired by Mr. Ivo Gener, Mayor of Ulm (Federal Republic of Germany), Mr Giovani Distazi, Vice president of the European Union Parliament, Mr Florian Fihtl, a Representative of the World Bank, Mr Ivailo Calfin, Minister of Foreign Affairs and dr Ivan Cenov, Mayor of Vidin.
The significance of cooperation and communication of cities and regions of the Danube Region has been confirmed and underlined at the conference, and it was indicated that the cooperation was an extremely important segment of the development of the future of the river being a real symbol of unity and a confirmation of the European identity. In his presentation, Mr Sandor Egeresi has pointed out the importance of developing cooperation towards the institutional form of the Danube Region as the previous activities indicate that connecting the regions contributes to strengthening the European integration and European unity because, even though the principles of European togetherness include the elements of globalisation, they, at the same time, take care of specificities of each country, region and national community. Mr. Egeresi has specifically pointed out the European values that Vojvodina's citizens live with, as well as emphasised that its multiculturality, multiethnicity and multiconfesionalism are parts of the European spirit.
At the conference, discussions were held about concrete projects in infrastructure, investments, environmental protection, flood protection, bicycle paths, economy and all other issues that may increase the citizens' living standard.
At the end of the conference, the Declaration was adopted, on the basis of which the institutional foundation of the Danube region was initiated as a new form of regional cooperation that will be implemented by the Council of the Danube Conference, consisting of Mr Ivo Gener, Mr Sandor Egeresi and dr Ivan Cenov. The agreement has been made on the presentation of the Danube region as a model for multiethnic and intercultural society in Europe in Brussels, in November of 2008 and the arrangements have been made of the 4th conference to be held in 2009 in Hungary.

 
 
 
— Final Declaration —
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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