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Wednesday, July 27, 2017 
Foreign Minister Muñoz presents President Bachelet with the “Policy and Strategy for the International Cooperation for Development: Chile Cooperates”
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Minister for Foreign Relations, Heraldo Muñoz, alongside with the Director of the Chilean Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AGCID), Ricardo Herrera, presented President Michelle Bachelet today at the Montt-Varas Hall at Palacio La Moneda, with the first Policy and Strategy for the International Cooperation for Development "Chile Cooperates", document which establishes a baseline to project the collaboration policy and contribute with the fulfilment of the challenges established by the Development Agenda 2030. "The responsibility to cooperate, one of the permanent principles of foreign policy, has been established as the foundation for the labour and evolution of AGCID" expressed President Bachelet after receiving the text.

"Chile cooperates, Chile is supportive, Chile also learns from other countries and this is what we have presented the President with, today" asserted the Minister by the end of the activity. The authority also pointed out that Chile is currently "is a very special situation. In the past, we have received support for our development. Today, after having experienced growth, and while having pending challenges still, we are in conditions to move forward in cooperating with the ones that have less than we do".

Likewise, she reminded that "Chile is at a very good place worldwide; it knows how to receive and how to give to others, particularly to less developed countries". In turn, she added that Chile expects to "continue to cooperate with our neighbouring countries, with Centre America, the Caribbean, and with African countries as well, with which we have over 50 Nelson Mandela Scholarship" by making reference to the benefit that allows African students to pursue Master's degree programmes in different Chilean universities.

During the ceremony, alongside with delivering the documents to the Mandatary, a video that renders account of the projects and places where Chile is cooperating in different initiatives was shown.

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One of the attendees was Kete Mirela Fuma, a Nelson Mandela scholarship holder from Mozambique. "Thanks to Chile I have been able to progress professionally. I am certain that by the end of this road I will be better prepared to face the challenges I will encounter in my country, where I hope to be a great contribution", she said in an emotional speech.

The event was also attended by Ministers of State, members of the Diplomatic Corps, members of the civil society and the academic world, alongside with the experts' committee that was summoned by the Chancellery to develop the cooperation policies, which is composed by María Eliana Arntz, Gonzalo Arenas, Benito Baranda, María del Carmen Dominguez, Rodrigo Egaña, Cristina Lazo, Carlos Parkers and Alberto Van Klaveren.

Fundamentals of Chilean cooperation

Chilean's policy for International Cooperation for Development designed to fulfil the challenges of the Development Agenda for 2030 is based in five fundamentals: the promotion of people's dignity; the inclusive and sustainable development from a rights perspective; the strengthening of democracy and its institutions; the promotion of peace, coexistence and human security; the strengthening of Latin America and the Caribbean's role within the Global Governance; and the commitment with Latin America and the Caribbean's regional integration and convergence.

These five principles derived in a short term Cooperation Strategy (from 2015 up until 2018) and it proposes the objectives and thematic areas to implement the vision of inclusive and sustainable development, proposed by the International Cooperation for Development policy.

It is noteworthy that, on the year 2015, our country assigned near 10.4 million dollars to cooperate with Latin America and the Caribbean. An 87% of the technical assistance was directed to Latin American and the Caribbean, whereas al 11% to other regions, such as Africa and Asia. In this sense, Minister Muñoz pointed out that Chile has a "commitment to keep on acting".