Didcot–Meylan Twinning Association

We, the Mayors of Didcot and Meylan,

freely elected by vote of our fellow citizens,

confident that we are responding to the deeply felt aspirations and real needs of our townspeople,

aware that our age-old urban communities were the cradle of Western civilisation and
that the spirit of freedom first took root in the freedoms they contrived to win,

believing that the work of history must be carried forward in a larger world, but that this world can only
be on a truly human scale if its people live their lives freely in free towns and cities,,

on this day, give a solemn pledge

to maintain permanent ties between the town councils of our two communities,

to foster exchanges between their inhabitants in every area of life so as
to develop a living sense of European kinship through a better mutual understanding,

and to join forces to secure, to the utmost of our abilities,
a successful outcome of this vital venture of peace and properity.