Selected Events 2008   

Taking Stock Of Commercial Relations With Saxony

June 10, 2008. Consul General Mark Scheland addressed over 30 private sector managers and leaders of institutions in Görlitz, on the German-Polish border. In his remarks and a Q&A session, the Consul General conveyed U.S. objectives in international economic policy, emphasizing the U.S. engagement in the Doha Development Round of World Trade Organization negotiations, the Major Economies process for combating climate change, and the public/private agenda of the Transatlantic Economic Council, which seeks to reduce obstacles to U.S.-EU trade and investment flows. Saxony state parliament (Landtag) member Volker Bandmann, the Abbess of the Roman Catholic St. Marienthal Cloister, a Lutheran bishop, and figures from regional cultural institutions also attended. The event host, the regional chapter of the Wirtschaftrat Deutschland, a business and policy advisory council, used the occasion to plan a larger "farewell visit" program in the easternmost city of the consular district. As part of this program, Consul General Scheland called on Lord Mayor Joachim Paulick and visited Görlitz's remarkable city archive and late 19th-Century synagogue.