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Gallardon chairs UCCI meeting which decides on admission of Puerto Principe.

Madrid, July 14 .- The Mayor of Madrid, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon chairs, 15 and July 16 in Santo Domingo, the XIV Plenary Assembly of the Union of American Capital Cities (UCCI), which will decide on the admission of Puerto Principe.

Gallardon has traveled to Santo Domingo today, hosting the Plenary Assembly belonging to 27 major cities, most state capitals, including, sto credits, Madrid, Barcelona, Lisboa, Andorra, and represents more than a hundred million people.

The capital of Haiti, Puerto Principe, has applied for membership of the Union of American Capital Cities (UCCI), the intermunicipal organization based in Madrid, chaired by the mayor, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon.

Upon arrival, Ruiz-Gallardon pointed out that "words such as trade, cooperation, synergy and networking are part, sto energy credits, of the vocabulary that organizations like ours manage profusely, but the only thing really important is that due to a principle more deeply, to a relationship very narrow. "

Gallardon also rrred to "the solidarity that makes the fate of any of the cities that make up the UCCI we are not indifferent, nor that of those which, although close, were so, mortal gold, far out of it."

Alluded to the proposal to grant the condition of Puerto Principe partner city, "which is part of the joint response to the UCCI can give to situations of extraordinary difficulty, as they were this year's earthquakes in Haiti and Chile."

The visit of the delegation of the UCCI to Haiti to assess their most urgent needs and the cooperation offered to Chile, Ruiz-Gallardon reminded illustrate this way of proceeding.

I mention especially the mobilization of rescue teams in many Latin American capitals, as the same Santo Domingo, Havana, Mexico City, Caracas, Buenos Aires or Madrid, as well as other organized collections, from Bogota to San Salvador or City Guatemala.

"Already in 2009, took a historical step by staging this policy of solidarity in the Summit of Local Authorities was held in an extraordinary manner, responding to the request of Mexico City and its need for support to the crisis caused by influenza A" .

Gallardon stressed that 37 million Latin Americans, according to UN figures, have escaped poverty between 2002 and 2007.

"They have done through the educational effort, in an unprecedented process of reducing the social gap has closed the gap between the needy and the most affluent," he said.

"It is difficult to think that the relative strength with which the crisis facing Latin American area, with higher growth rates than Europe, may be alien to this kind of change that begin with the easiest thing" argument.

I commend the work done by the municipalities and councils to strengthen their economies, even if that is an important service that is not always recognized at the highest levels of government.

"To the point, on many occasions, spared the capital cities the resources they legitimately claim in accordance with its enormous potential as generators of wealth and jobs," he emphasized.

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