City Of Sunderland Agreement Of Friendship With Washington Dc

EDM number 2233 in 2005-06, proposed by Fraser Kemp on 23/05/2006.

That this House recognises that Sunderland City Council has negotiated an Agreement of Friendship with Washington DC, the capital of the United States of America and the home of the President; further recognises that it means that over the next five years the two cities will collaborate on a host of activities to create closer friendship and co-operation between both cities and develop programmes of mutual benefit for the people of Sunderland and the people of the District of Columbia; and further recognises that George Washington, the first US President, had an ancestorial home in Washington, Tyne and Wear.

This motion has been signed by a total of 23 MPs.