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Tito Dragon (IPS / Madrid) .- The exchange of development aid from 19 Latin American countries, Andorra, Spain and Portugal continue to rise in coming years, said Planning Director for Cooperation of the Secretariat General (SEGIB) Jose Maria Vera.

The national coordinators responsible for cooperation bloc gathered in Madrid to prepare the XXI Iberia-American Summit convened in October in Asuncion, Thursday received the hands of the secretary general, Enrique Iglesias Hispanic, the balance of running trading schemes welfare, economic, educational and others.

Iglesias highlighted several programs included in the balance, including the Bank of milk, of which about 150,000 babies are beneficiaries of the South, standing on this plane as an aid Brazil, whose activity has been to expand this activity in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Also in the balance of Churches, which was accompanied by the responsible cooperation of Paraguay, Antonio Rivas Palacios, and director of Latin America and the Caribbean from the Spanish Agency for International Development, Julia Olmos, other successes were reported, as Bermudian Program, which produced a series of leading film winners at international festivals.

In the Science and Technology for Development (Cited), about 9,000 researchers work in over 1,300 groups and 60 networks.

About Academic Mobility Program Pablo Neruda, with 160 teachers and involving graduate students, it is necessary to clarify that, although named after the great Chilean writer who was not focused solely on writing and poetry, but covering other academic activities.

In the presentation, the secretary general stressed the importance of SEGIB in the last five years Latin American countries each year drove more than 1,200 projects in South-South cooperation.

Vera pointed out to IPS that five years ago the programs approved by the Iberia-with a budget of 40 million per year (56 million) were almost entirely responsible for Spain, “in both the genesis and in the momentum back and funding.”

But now, he said, and they are also in charge of Latin American and Caribbean nations and South-South Cooperation is funded entirely within the region itself.

Spain remains committed and is the main funder of most programs, but in some cases are Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Uruguay and Ecuador, which “have promoted Summit Program and have the technical secretariat of some of them” , said Vera.

Speaking to the press, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Spain, Trinidad Jimenez, thanked the donors their work and stressed that this task is not always easy to develop.

He noted that the economic problems of the global crisis will not affect his government’s firm conviction that international solidarity is an obligation of social justice.

An innovative aspect in the context of humanitarian action is triangular, the first of them who are jointly developing Brazil, Spain and the United States to carry 7,500 tons of Somalia food donated by the South American giant.

Held on Thursday 8 Cooperating Day, established by the Spanish government in 2006 as a way of recognizing the work of thousands of cooperating to achieve that aim to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), commitment in 2000 by governments at the United Nations Organization.

These MDGs are focused this week on the theme “The value of giving future,” focused on the Arab world, with acts of various kinds, a concert and an international gathering of journalists.

Among these events was the awards ceremony by the Spanish Agency for Cooperation, as given to the Peruvian Musk Nolte Maldonado for his series of ten photographs in the Amazon rainforest in the country.

The second prize went to the Spanish Diego Sanchez Ibarra, for his photograph “Tata”, made following floods that affected 20 million people in Pakistan in July 2010, while the third award was for a series of images titled “Dreaming Haiti, “Grillage Santolaya Eduardo, recounting the disaster suffered by that country because of the earthquake in January 2010.