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"Migration is a phenomenon that is necessary to deal with every possible effort to achieve full integration of those who come to Murcia for humanitarian reasons to alleviate their human drama."

With these words began the Mayor, Miguel Ángel Cámara, speaking at the inauguration of the seminar on the challenges of migration: cooperation on both sides of the Mediterranean ", organized by the Centre for Cooperation in the Mediterranean and the Red Cross and taking place in Murcia for today and tomorrow.

House has stressed the obligation to implement appropriate measures to "between all the full integration of those who come to Murcia."

To achieve this, the greatest guarantee of success lies in its view, to work on "education of children, programs for women and job training."

The Mayor pointed out that the phenomenon of migration "is foreign to us not in Murcia, where we begin to work harder in the 90's to respond to needs a reality day by day was imposing."

The result of this was the creation of the Permanent Immigration Observatory in 1998.

Since 2004, "with a sharp increase in the number of immigrants", the City of Murcia put their effort in care and humanitarian aid to facilitate integration through education and work, and cooperation with other countries to help the movement of these people to other places was the result of a personal decision, not bound by the harsh conditions. "

The Mayor highlighted the ongoing collaboration with nongovernmental organizations and associations working with the common goal that "migration is not perceived as a negative phenomenon because the great progress the world have always come from the addition and subtraction ever.

So immigrants have to be elements that enhance, benefit and increase the capacity of a society to respond to the challenges and challenges, "he added.

The seminar opened today to raise awareness of the challenges posed by migration in the Mediterranean region and support a shift in attitudes regarding the difficulties encountered by migrants.

Also, the conference will discuss the search for innovative and creative responses in line with current challenges, more efficient and better coordinated, and greater mobilization of public support for action to improve the balance between the two sides.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia