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| | United Cities and Local Governments |
 | | The Congress theme was theme ‘Cities, local governments; the future for development’ and debate and discussion took place through three high-level plenary sessions and fifteen workshops on key issues such as city diplomacy, the multicultural city, women in local government, financing local government and local strategies to tackle HIV/AIDS. |
 | | As the united voice and world advocate of democratic local self-government, United Cities and Local Governments brings together the global networks of its three founding members - the International Union of Local Authorities, founded in 1913, the World Federation of United Cities, founded in 1957, and Metropolis, founded in 1984. |
 | | Over 1000 cities are direct members of United Cities and Local Governments, as well as 100 national associations which represent all the cities and local governments in a single country. |
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