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Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [40]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
So the situation was different from Mr Ross' example. I want to come to the point.

Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [39]

  • Question by: Sally Hamwee
  • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
I am interested to get a sense of where relations with Europe - or perhaps I should say the rest of Europe at the risk of alienating some people round the Chamber - figure in this. John [Ross], you mentioned the Euro Zone but that is not the whole of Europe. One could talk of the Euro Zone, the EU and Europe. We have the Brussels office costing something over £400,000 a year. Is it that that is working very well and therefore low profile? I would have hoped that the Mayor would set a high priority on good relations...

Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [38]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
I certainly do not characterise Monsieur Delanoe [Mayor of Paris] as an extremist. I do not think he has ever, even in his youth, advocated arming workers' militias or anything of that kind, Mr Ross.

Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [37]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
Who does that? Any idea?

Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [36]

  • Question by: Richard Barnes
  • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
Once.

Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [35]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
All right. Let us take the South America trip then and Caracas. Who was responsible for briefing him on that?

Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [34]

  • Question by: Richard Barnes
  • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
But he has not met Mayor Bloomberg you have just told us.

Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [33]

  • Question by: Richard Barnes
  • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
He has never met the Mayor of New York who has snubbed him. We have not gone into proper and full partnership agreements with Tokyo, even though we have signed a paper and you advised not to do it. Is it not true that it is not the interest of Londoners you wish to further, it is primarily the interests of the Mayor's political ideology you seek to further?

Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [32]

  • Question by: Richard Barnes
  • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
Not according to his report.

Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [31]

  • Question by: Richard Barnes
  • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
Ms Parchment, the question is not about your relationships with the rest of the world, but about the Mayor's.
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