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7087RESOLUTION NO. 7,087 A RESOLUTION ENDORSING THE PAIRING PROJECT SPONSORED BY THE ARKANSAS PEACE CENTER - PAIRING LITTLE ROCK AND FRUNZE IN THE KIRGHIZ REPUBLIC, USSR, IN THE INTEREST OF WORLD PEACE. WHEREAS, the Arkansas Peace Center, a non - profit voter education service, will participate in a national program designated the "Pairing Project" to foster greater understanding of the Soviet Union; and, WHEREAS, the center has chosen to join dozens of United States cities in the Pairing Project in the belief that it will contribute to the easing of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union; and, WHEREAS, the participation of Little Rock will consist of transmitting to Frunze, a city of 500,000 people in the Kirghiz Republic, USSR, a "community portrait " - -a collection of materials, photographs, and souvenirs that portray the cultural, economic, political, and social life of Little Rock including formal greetings from the Board of Directors - -all in the hope that the people of Frunze will reciprocate in kind; and, WHEREAS, at least this gesture may make some contribution to world peace, Now, therefore: BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE CITY OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS: Section 1. We, the Board of Directors, officially on behalf of the people of Little Rock and individually hereby endorse the Pairing Project and hereby extend to the people of Frunze, Kirghiz Republic, USSR, our greetings and offer of good will in the hope that this will serve in some measure to promote the salutary aims of the Pairing Project. ADOPTED: November 15, 1983 ATTEST: APPROVED: C y erk a e Czech Mayor J. W. nafi d m