Eduardo González
This past Tuesday, the Council of Ministers authorized a voluntary contribution of 10,000 US dollars (just under 9,365 euros) to the Ibero-American Diplomatic Archives Network (RADI), a program of the Ibero-American Summit to protect historical archives and preserve Ibero-American memory and in which Spain currently holds the rotating presidency.
The Ibero-American Diplomatic Archives Network was approved at the VIII Ibero-American Summit, held in Porto in 1998, and was established as a program in 2006, adapting to the operational manual of the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB). The RADI is also part of the Ibero-American Cultural Space (ECI), in which the SEGIB and the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI) participate. RADI is made up of representatives of the Diplomatic Archives of: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Spain, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela.
The main objective of the network is to promote cooperation in the organization, administration, conservation and use of the archival systems of the Ibero-American foreign ministries with the purpose of modernizing the administration of the documentary collections under their custody and improving the management practices of documents for the benefit of the countries, the chancelleries themselves and national and foreign users.
The network participates in UNESCO’s archival cooperation programs, has its own cooperation programs, online training courses in archive management and a website that collects the work of the RADI and the ministerial archives of the countries. participants. It is financed by voluntary contributions from its members. The minimum fee established for all participants is US$7,000, and any contribution in excess of this amount must be voluntary.
Spain, through the Technical General Secretariat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, currently holds the presidency of this program for the period 2022-2024, as agreed at the XXIII Meeting of the Ibero-American Diplomatic Archives Network, held on December 16 2021. Therefore, as in the last three years, the Government will make a voluntary contribution of 10,000 US dollars this year through the OEI, based in Madrid and with which the RADI maintains a collaboration agreement.
For this reason, as in the last two years, the Government will make a voluntary contribution of 10,000 US dollars this year (although a little lower after its conversion to euros compared to that of 2022, which was slightly higher than 9,500 euros). through the OEI, based in Madrid and with which the RADI maintains a collaboration agreement.
