PROTOCOL

This Protocol, by and between the City of Boulder, Colorado, a Colorado home rule city, and Dushanbe, Tadzhikistan, the capital of the Republic of Tadzhikistan, made this 11th day of Sept., 1990,

WITNESSETH:

WHEREAS, the Soviet and American people have a mutual aspiration to develop relations of friendship and confidence; and

WHEREAS, in May of 1987, the City of Boulder and the City of Dushanbe signed an Agreement of Establishing Sister City Relations, and each city has sent an official delegation to the other to negotiate further understandings to establish cooperation and make the sister city relationship a reality; and

WHEREAS, Boulder-Dushanbe Sister Cities is a Colorado non-profit corporation, exempt from United States income taxes under section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code, which has been designated by the Boulder City Council to coordinate the City of Boulder's participation in the Dushanbe sister city project; and

WHEREAS, the Soviet and American governments have recently entered into the 1989 Vienna Concluding Document of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe;

NOW THEREFORE, be it agreed in principle through this non-binding protocol, as follows:

    I. CULTURAL EXCHANGE

  1. The City of Boulder and Dushanbe agree that they will jointly promote the establishment of cultural ties between their cities, and between writers, visual and performing artists, filmmakers, playwrights, composers, actors, and musicians in the two cities.

  2. Boulder-Dushanbe Sister Cities will compile and send to the City of Dushanbe information about cultural events in Boulder, through brochures, photographs and audio and video tapes, which will include, without limitation, music and poetry suitable for radio and TV broadcasting. The City of Dushanbe will provide similar information to Boulder-Dushanbe Sister Cities.

  3. The Cities of Boulder and Dushanbe will jointly recommend that the editorial staffs of newspapers, including Vecherny Dushanbe and Boulder Daily Camera, exchange newspaper columns annually.

  4. The City of Dushanbe will arrange in Dushanbe in May of 1990 concerts of the "St. Cecilia Singers" and the "Pablo Casals Trio".

  5. Boulder-Dushanbe Sister Cities will organize an exhibition of works by young artists of Dushanbe in Boulder in August and September of 1989 and will organize a performance of the "Zebo" group in Boulder at a time to be determined by mutual agreement.

  6. The Cities of Boulder and Dushanbe will encourage exchanges to implement the provision of the 1989 Vienna Concluding Document of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, including without limitation exchanges between ethnic and religious groups in each city.

    II. EDUCATION, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, SPORTS AND ARCHITECTURE

  7. The Cities of Boulder and Dushanbe adopt as their aim to encourage regular exchanges of school children during their holidays and during the school year. Boulder-Dushanbe Sister Cities will provide for the reception of Dushanbe high school students and chaperons in Boulder in March of 1990 who will come to Boulder with a reply visit.

  8. The Cities of Boulder and Dushanbe will encourage the Boulder Valley School District and Dushanbe Schools No 9, 20, and 31 to provide for cooperation in the study of English, Russian, and Tadzhik language and culture and to establish a regular exchange of children's art.

  9. The City of Boulder will work with the University of Colorado and Naropa Institute, and the City of Dushanbe will work with Tadzhik State University, in order to encourage exchanges of college and university students, teachers and professors.

  10. Boulder-Dushanbe Sister Cities and the City of Dushanbe will set as a goal exchange of three to four medical doctors and dentists each year. The visit of Dushanbe doctors will take place in December of 1989. The American side will work to seek accommodations for such doctors in American families. A reply visit of Boulder doctors to Dushanbe will be held in period both sides agree upon.

  11. The City of Boulder will work with medical manufacturing companies, and the City of Dushanbe will work with Soviet manufacturing concerns, to encourage joint medical equipment manufacturing projects.

  12. The City of Boulder and the City of Dushanbe will encourage exchanges of designs of apartment houses, clubs, street and district improvement projects, trade centers, and cultural centers.

  13. The City of Boulder will work with the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States Government in order to promote exchange of information concerning protection of the environment with the Academy of Sciences of Tadzhikistan and the Dushanbe Committee of Nature Protection.

  14. The Cities of Boulder and Dushanbe will encourage exchanges between ham radio operators in each city.

    III. PEACE PROSPECT, TEAHOUSE AND RESTAURANT

  15. The City of Dushanbe will assist in the design of a Peace Prospect street in Boulder.

  16. By the end of 1989, the City of Dushanbe will send to Boulder a teahouse, in the form shown to City of Boulder representatives, which the City of Boulder and Boulder-Dushanbe Sister Cities will exercise their best efforts to install at a public location in Boulder. The type of transporting the teahouse will be discussed by both sides additionally. Dushanbe will send a group of four persons to be changed by another group of fur according to terms given below. Travel in the U.S., meals and accommodations will be provided by Boulder-Dushanbe Sister Cities, and these persons will participate in the assembly, installation, equipping, and initial operation of the teahouse for a period not to succeed four months. Boulder Sister Cities and other Boulder groups and citizens will exercise their best efforts to raise sufficient funds and in-kind donations for site and installation costs.

  17. Subsequent to the installation of the teahouse, Boulder-Dushanbe Sister Cities will exercise its best efforts to raise sufficient funds to construct a "Boulder Restaurant" or other mutually agreed-upon structure in Dushanbe, including necessary furniture and technical equipment. The City of Dushanbe will be responsible for site and installation costs.

    IV. TRADE, ECONOMY

  18. The Cities of Boulder and Dushanbe will work with the governments of the State of Colorado and the Republic of Tadzhikistan to encourage economic links between the cities and between Colorado and Tadzhikistan. Specifically, an effort will be made to encourage direct links between beverage manufacturers, bottlers and canners, and an investigation will be made of the possibilities of opening up shops selling souvenirs and goods of local industries.

    V. GOVERNMENT

  19. The Cities of Boulder and Dushanbe will endeavor to share all details of their experience of management and organization of municipal services and regulation. In particular, the City of Boulder will provide the City of Dushanbe with a current and updated copy of its municipal code, Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan, water, sewer, drainage and flood master plans, parks master plan, and transportation master plan, and the City of Dushanbe will keep the City of Boulder informed of counterpart plans and regulations in the City of Dushanbe.

WHEREFORE, the parties have caused this Protocol to be executed in two counterpart copies, in Russian and English, each of which shall be deemed equally valid, as of the date first above written.


City of Boulder, Colorado
By: Leslie Durgin (signed), Mayor
Accepted and Approved:
Boulder-Dushanbe Sister Cities
By: Mary Axe (signed)
City of Dushanbe, Tadzhikistan
By: M. Ikramov (signed), Mayor