City of Novi Sad officials concluded an agreement at Nizhny Novgorod Business Forum with a delegation of Nizhny Novgorod, one of the sister cities of Novi Sad.

The agreement said the two twin towns would meet at this year’s 85th Annual International Agricultural Fair in Novi Sad. ”There’s a strong heritage here about building relationships between cities at this level,” said Novi Sad Council member Milorad Radojevic. Novi Sad and Nizhny Novgorod have been twin cities since 2006.

”This mutual cooperation has so far been only on the cultural and educational basis, but now we want to expand these relations from the two arenas into the economic arena”, said Maria Kondratieva, Head of the Department for Foreign Economic Affairs of the Committee for External Economic and Interregional Relations of the city with the population of 1,300,000 people. Following the visit to the Expo, the Russian delegation which includes business owners, who are currently exhibiting agricultural lubricants and fluids at the Master Hall, their itinerary will include the City Hall, Novi Sad Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Faculty of Technical Sciences.