International Relations
Bradford is twinned with a number of places around the world:
- Skopje, Macedonia (since 1963)
- Roubaix, France (since 1969)
- Verviers, Belgium (since 1970)
- Mönchengladbach, Germany (since 1971)
- Galway, Ireland (since 1987)
- Mirpur, Pakistan (friendship agreement in 1998)
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Famous quotes containing the words international relations and/or relations:
“International relations is security, it’s trade relations, it’s power games. It’s not good-and-bad. But what I saw in Yugoslavia was pure evil. Not ethnic hatred—that’s only like a label. I really had a feeling there that I am observing unleashed human evil ...”
—Natasha Dudinska (b. c. 1967)
“The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. The continent we inhabit is to be physic and food for our mind, as well as our body. The land, with its tranquilizing, sanative influences, is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education, and bring us to just relations with men and things.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)