North Lanarkshire set to end historic Russian town-twinning arrangement

dailyrecord.co.uk:

North Lanarkshire Council is set to end an inherited historic twinning arrangement with a Russian town following the country’s invasion of neighbouring Ukraine.The link between Gatchina in Leningrad Oblast and the former Monklands District, comprising Airdrie and Coatbridge, has been in place since the mid-1980s – although there has been no “ongoing activity” since that council was merged into the new unitary local authority in 1995.

Council leader Jim Logue is now tabling an additional item at Thursday’s policy and strategy committee meeting to seek official agreement to write to the town’s mayor and “advise that the historical twinning agreement inherited from Monklands District Council will be disestablished as a result of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine”.

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