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Monday, June 05, 2006
Baguio, Murcia forge sisterhood pact
TO ESTABLISH sisterhood relationship, Baguio City and the Municipality of Murcia, Negros Occidental forged a memorandum of understanding (MOU).
Mayor Braulio Yaranon and Murcia Mayor Esteban Coscolluela led other city and municipal officials and representatives in the activity last June 1 at the Camp John Hay.
Councilor Pinky Rondez said the MOU paved the way for a greater cooperation and interaction between the two local government units (LGUs).
Rondez said it was a key step in a series of exchanges that will be an important channel to add even more momentum to the bilateral trade and investment relations. "I am confident and with great expectation, our new stage of understanding and cooperation will bring about new and revitalized relations between Baguio and Murcia," she said.
She claimed that with the bond that was formed, the relationship between the two LGUs will become stronger, making the future of Baguio and Murcia brighter with the opportunity to focus on similarities instead of differences.
Meanwhile, Yaranon expressed his gratitude as he welcomed local officials of Murcia for making Baguio as their second home.
He said the sisterhood pact was established since Murcia is also located in the uplands of Negros Occidental where similar environment can be achieved in the future.
The mayor cited that Murcia, being in the upland area of Negros, could also become the summer capital in the Visayas following the plan of the present administration to put up a "Malacañang of the South".
He said with the signing of the pact, more opportunities between the two LGUs will be realized, learning from each other's culture and traditions as well as in local administration, which could harness economic progress. "Honesty, decency and fear of God are the strong tools for an LGU to become progressive," he said.
Coscolluela, on the other hand, said he had good memories of Baguio during his stay in the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) in Camp John Hay. He also expressed his gratitude in behalf of the other officials of his town for accepting the sisterhood agreement, adding that Murcia also signed a sisterhood pact with Spain wherein the ambassador of Spain visited their municipality.
He said that running an LGU is not easy, but with ties between other LGUs, learning with each other could lessen the burden. (FM)
(June 5, 2006 issue)
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