Mayor of Szczecin, Poland Conducts Overseas Trade Meetings in St. Louis, Missouri USA.ST. LOUIS -- The Honorable Marian Jurczyk Marian Jurczyk (born 16 october 1935) is a Polish politician and trade union activist. In the 1980s involved with Solidarity movement. Senator in the Senate of Poland from 1997 to 2000, mayor of Szczecin from 18 November 1998 to 24 January 2000 and from 21 November 2002 to 4 , Mayor of Szczecin, Poland, conducted business meetings with trade and manufacturing officials while on an economic development mission to St. Louis, Missouri in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. last week. Mr. Jurczyk held meetings at a trade event attended by 250 executives from business and government, including The Honorable Matt Blunt Matthew Roy "Matt" Blunt (born November 20,1970) was elected Governor of Missouri on November 2, 2004. At the age of 33, this made him the second youngest person ever elected to that office after Kit Bond. He is a member of the Republican Party. , governor of Missouri. Mayor Jurczyk discussed advantages of Szczecin's port, research, manufacturing, distribution, and encouraged executives to consider Szczecin their first destination for market entry into the European Union European Union (EU), name given since the ratification (Nov., 1993) of the Treaty of European Union, or Maastricht Treaty, to the European Community or Russia. Mr. Jurczyk met with Mr. Robert Ogrodnik, who is Polish Consul in St. Louis and a senior consultant with Emerson, a global technology and engineering company, and with Mr. Thomas Olesky, chief executive of The ROHO ROHO Regional Oral History Office (San Francisco) ROHO Remote Office Home Office Group, a manufacturer of consumer and healthcare products. The mayor also met with Mr. Robert Heuermann, Jr., executive director of World Trade Center Saint Louis; Mr. Stewart Dahlberg, Chairman of the Missouri District Export Council; and John Freeborn free·born adj. 1. Born as a free person, not as a slave or serf. 2. Relating to or befitting a person born free. freeborn Adjective History not born in slavery , chief executive of eMed International, Inc., a manufacturer of medical equipment. These meetings were held in anticipation of a trade mission by St. Louis executives traveling to Poland this October for meetings with Szczecin officials. Szczecin and St. Louis formed a twin city relationship in 1992 to promote business, trade, education, technology and cultural exchanges. Since then, people in Szczecin and St. Louis have engaged in productive international commerce and quality of life initiatives. Mr. Jurczyk was accompanied by Mr. Greg Koltuniak from the Szczecin-St. Louis Sister Cities Committee, and Ms. Ewa Kurjata, chief of foreign affairs in Szczecin. In St. Louis, the mayor also met with Mariusz Adam Jakubowski, chief of the Commercial & Economic Department for Poland's Consulate General office in Chicago. St. Louis is in the central United States The Central United States is sometimes conceived as between the Eastern United States and Western United States as part of a three-region model, roughly coincident with the Midwestern United States plus the western and central portions of the Southern United States; the term is . Like Szczecin, it is a research and manufacturing center and home to leading universities. It has a large port on the Mississippi River. |
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