RESOLUTION NO. 970800
Welcoming Russian Entrepreneurs in the bakery and milling
industries to the United States and Kansas City.
WHEREAS, from May 10 to June 7, Missouri businesses
will become training sites for Russian Entrepreneurs in the bakery and milling
industries who are risking their all to build individual businesses and private
enterprise in Russia; and
WHEREAS, the Productivity Enhancement Program is
based on the post-WWII Marshall Plan's technical assistance program, which is
celebrating its 50th anniversary this June. Ten bakery and milling
entrepreneurs from Russia will come to Kansas City to learn from their American
counterparts in an all-out effort to boost the fledgling Russian free market
economy; and
WHEREAS, the Productivity Enhancement Program works
in partnership with local civic organizations. MO-ARK Division IV Kiwanis
International is coordinating this historic effort by identifying volunteer
training sites, arranging home accommodations, scheduling transportation and
organizing cultural and social events; and
WHEREAS, this visit serves as a reminder of the
friendly ties of the citizens of the United States of America, the
"melting pot" nation, to Russian Entrepreneurs and all other people
and illustrates again how all people who share this Planet Earth are truly
brothers and sisters with a common wish to live together in peace; NOW,
THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
That the Mayor and Council hereby welcome to the
United States of America and to Kansas City, Missouri, the Russian
Entrepreneurs; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Mayor and Council
hereby declare our visitors to be honorary citizens of Kansas City, Missouri;
and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this Resolution be
spread upon the Minutes of the Council and that copies hereof be presented to
Igor Batrakin, Murad Bjigakov, Leonid Bondarenko, Vladislav Chereven, Inna
Kotliar, Anatoli Kourbatov, Tamara Mamonova, Olga Matveeva, Vladimir Shestakov
and Alexandre Stepanov in token of the respect and esteem in which they are
held in the hearts and minds of the Mayor and Council for the seemingly small
step they have taken on behalf of all American and Russian Entrepreneurs on the
road which leads towards assuring world peace.
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