Blasco PSPV accused of halving the official development assistance.
Valencia, Aug. 29 .- The secretary of Social Movements and NGOs and deputy PSPV-PSOE in Les Corts, Clara Tirado, today accused the minister for Solidarity and Citizenship, Rafael Blasco, of being responsible for the budget for Official Development Assistance for this year "has been reduced to almost half" to the next.
Budgets for the entire Valencian cooperation for 2010 have been cut to 45% on, ffxiv gil, 2009 figures, has denounced Tirado, who explained that the amount spent is 0.21%, well below years earlier, as in 2009 when the 0.39% target.
In a statement, the Socialist deputy has indicated that this means "a clear breach of the much vaunted 0.7% that the minister Rafael Blasco proclaims insistently and systematically fails" because the Government is, ffxiv gil, this year to international cooperation "29.6 million less than in the previous year. "
He recalled that the agenda of the General Directorate of International Development Cooperation has been the one who has suffered "the biggest cuts, down 35% compared to 2009," and added that the amount of budget that the Government intended to International cooperation is "very far" from autonomic meet, fallen earth chips, in this area, which sets a minimum of 0.7% of the total.
According to Tirado, this law met the Government should allocate about 100 million to international cooperation for development.
In his view, the commitment of the Generalitat with the less developed countries is "insufficient" and is "very far" from achieving the objectives of the Covenant Valencian poverty recently signed by all political groups represented in parliament.
Finally, Blasco Councillor has accused of "cheating when counting the so-called Official Development Assistance, to include budget items that do not conform to international standards established by the Development Assistance Committee of the OECD."
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