Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino met Thursday with Zarrías Gaspar, Secretary of State for Regional Cooperation of Spain, to discuss cooperation in regional integration. It was announced that the President of Spain Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero will visit Ecuador in the second half of 2011.
Patiño Minister spoke with the English Secretary of the possibility of transferring the experience of Spain in the areas of decentralization and definition of powers that Ecuador has developed, in addition to strengthening bilateral cooperation.
said that the country has been working recently on issues of jurisdiction between the central government, municipal and regional governments, while Spain has a long experience in terms of autonomy, decentralization and skills.
For its part, the Secretary Zarrías also said his experience as a speaker for a seminar given in Ecuador on land policy.
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