Subject: Fwd: Next steps - Announcement of Tbilisi as a Challenge City
From: "Maia Lagvilava" <[email-masked]>
To: Sopo Belkania
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 11:48:31 +0400

FYI

Maia Lagvilava MD, MHA

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From: Rebecca Morton Doherty <[email-masked]>
Date: June 27, 2018 at 12:01:30 AM GMT+4
To: 'Gela Chiviashvili' <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>
Cc: 'Eka Sanikidze' <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>, 'Isabel Mestres' <[email-masked]>
Subject: Next steps - Announcement of Tbilisi as a Challenge City

Dear Minister Lagvilava, Dear Mr Chiviashvili,

Thank you very much for your support.

As a next step, in preparation for the official announcement of Tbilisi as a Challenge City,  I am happy to share with you a Letter of Intent that has been now been signed by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), confirming our intention to work together with the City of Tbilisi on a more detailed Memorandum of Understanding in the coming weeks.  I would be very grateful if you could both sign the attached letter, and return to me via email by the end of this week.

As mentioned, we would very much like to announce this excellent news on July 5th, in conjunction with the Interactive Civil Society Hearing on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) taking place in New York. This is a great opportunity to make a public announcement, as there will be heightened press and social media coverage of NCD issues. UICC is holding a side event for the New York Permanent Missions to the UN on 5 July (the invitation is attached for your reference) – and we also have the possibility to include the announcement at this event as part of the discussion on C/Can 2025: City Cancer Challenge.  UICC would like to invite the Permanent Mission of Georgia in New York to attend this side event – and will reach out directly – but we would very much appreciate your support in encouraging a representative from the Permanent Mission to participate and even say a few words from the floor about the selection of Tbilisi as a C/Can 2025 Challenge City.  Please do let me know if you think this would be possible, and if there is someone in particular you think we should coordinate with.

In the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact me should you have any questions.

Kind regards,

Rebecca

Rebecca Morton Doherty

Head, City Engagement & Impact
Union for International Cancer Control (UICC)
31-33 Avenue Giuseppe Motta
1202 Geneva - Switzerland

Tel: +41 22 809 18 77
Fax: +41 22 809 18 10
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www.uicc.org/CCan2025