KIELCE /ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE AND VINNYTSA REGIONS – PARTNERSHIP AND COOPERATION FROM PERSPECTIVE PAST DECADES
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31498/2225-6407.1.2012.6074Keywords:
cooperation, region, experience, interregional contract, agreement, practical dimensionAbstract
У статті представлені основні, а також правові основи співпраці, покладеної в 1950 році між Кельце (Свентокшинское воєводство) і Вінницьким регіоном. Незважаючи на перетворення, що проходять в обох країнах, це співпраця як і раніше актуально в умовах нового міжнародного стану. У статті висвітлена низка заходів, практичне застосування яких буде корисне для ряду регіонів, округів, що виявляють цікавість до цієї співпраці.
В статье представлены основные, а также правовые основы сотрудничества, положенного в 1950 году между Кельце (Свентокшинское воеводство) и Винницким регионом. Несмотря на преобразования, проходящие в обеих странах, это сотрудничество по-прежнему актуально в условиях новой международной обстановки. В статье освещен ряд мероприятий, практическое применение которых будет полезно для ряда регионов, округов, проявляющих интерес к этому сотрудничеству.
The aim of this article is to show the way the cooperation between the two regions has come. It presents the formal and the legal bases of the cooperation. These are both the bases that lay at the heart of the beginning of cooperation in the 1950s and the bases that have been in effect since the time the political transformations occurred in both countries and are still valid in the new international situation. Attention to the practical dimension is the reason that a whole range of various undertakings is shown. These undertakings can be conducted in a situation when regions, counties, communes or various institutions show interest in cooperation.
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A few months later – on November 16, 2009, a transport with medicine and surgical masks set out for Ukraine. These gifts were addressed to the Vinnytsia Oblast Children's Clinical Hospital.
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