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The Municipal Socialist Group will defend in the next plenary session a motion to claim the City of Murcia to increase annually the budget for Development Cooperation, since the municipality is one of the least contributing with 0.08%, far from 0 , 7% committed.

Councilor Maite Espinosa stated that "cooperation should not only be understood as a contribution of economic resources, our objective is broader, human dignity, extension of rights, social, educational, health and labor opportunities, as well as elimination Of discrimination and for that a decent and proportionate budget is needed and not try to cover this with a handout. "

He adds that the claim of 0.7% "is a constant in this City Council that until now has not taken this claim seriously."

In this regard, he explained that in the Cooperation Master Plan 2009-2012 as well as 2012-2017, there is a commitment to double the development aid to 0.7% of the Gross National Income, with the commitment Of all public administrations.

However, pointed out the councilor, in the draft budgets for this year 2017, the City Council allocated € 325,000 to the chapter on Cooperation for Development, that is "only 0.08% of the municipal budget."

Espinosa also said that "compared to other municipalities with similar characteristics, Murcia is the least contributing to Development Cooperation, moreover, has gone from contributions of 620,300 euros in 2006 (with 28 projects funded) to 400,000 euros in 2015 (for 16 projects) and, in addition, there is a 70% reduction in official aid from the Government of Spain, which currently places us in figures from the 1980s and has led to the abandonment of Institutional, social and individual transformation affecting thousands of people around the world. "

Therefore, the motion demands that the budget be increased annually to reach the 0.7% target and that the regional government be asked to comply with Law 12/2007 of International Cooperation for Development, "which has not yet been developed After nine years since its adoption in the Regional Assembly. "

Source: PSOE Murcia