Interface for data exchange without an FMCU with existing IT systems; potential-free release; network

Since then, IULA and UTO have been working together to create United Cities and Local Governments.

Alan Lloyd (Swansea, UK) is elected President of IULA; Mercedes Bresso (Province of Turin) becomes President of FMCU-UTO.

By a majority of one, it votes not to end the process of unification with FMCU-UTO.

In Johannesburg, ICLEI, IULA and UTO organise their conference in parallel with the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development.

Diego Novelli, Mayor of Turin, becomes President of FMCU-UTO, succeeding Amadou Cisse-Dia, mayor of Kaolack, Senegal.

There followed 6 long years of negotiations with FMCU, to prepare for the coming of United Cities and Local Governments.

UTO holds its second Congress in Harrogate, UK and Louis Bazerque, Mayor of Toulouse, France, is elected president.

United Cities Development (CUD), the technical programme structure for FMCU-UTO, is created.

The result of the unification of IULA, UTO and Metropolis, this gave local and regional authorities from all corners of the globe a shared voice for the first time.

FMCU-UTO holds its 9th Congress in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe – the 20th anniversary since its creation.

To Michel Bescond, the SG of FMCU at the start of the process, and a good negotiating partner, and later Paolo Morello.

In his acceptance speech he says he is “determined to work for the aim of unification [with FMCU-UTO] within my term of office”.

FMCU-UTO’s 14th Congress is hosted in Lisbon, Portugal, home city of its President Jorge Sampaio.

UTO members call for the creation of United Cities to complete the United Nations organization with specific funding for united city action.