Kharkiv delegation attends opening of International Friendship Park (06/15/03)

Kharkiv delegation attends opening of International Friendship Park

by Jan Sherbin

CINCINNATI - Ten Kharkiv businesspeople represented their city at the May 17 dedication of the new International Friendship Park. The idea for the park emanated some years ago from the Cincinnati-Kharkiv Sister City Project.

The 20-acre park is meant to be a peaceful area celebrating friendship among the world's cultures.

Kharkiv Mayor Volodymyr Shumilkin sent this message to the people of Cincinnati: "On the occasion of the festive inauguration of the Theodore M. Berry International Friendship Park in Cincinnati, please accept my cordial congratulations on behalf of all the citizens of your sister city of Kharkiv.

"This wonderful project, symbolizing the values of cooperation aimed at strengthening friendship and the diversity of cultural traditions, will encourage the unity of people of different nationalities and increase the role of Cincinnati in the world community," he noted

On the day of the park dedication, the Kharkiv businesspeople were in Cincinnati for a Community Connections program, organized and implemented by the Cincinnati-Kharkiv Sister City Project under a grant from the U.S. Department of State. During their May 14-June 11 program, they are meeting with a variety of businesspeople and educators to learn about American business principles and practices.

Four of them work in fields new to Ukraine - supermarkets, personnel recruiting, investment, and Internet advertising. The others work in construction, manufacture of writing utensils gasoline distribution, security products, control systems for industry and the space program, and compressed air treatment equipment.

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