Extract from 90 Seconds statements Nick Ramsay AM:...I'm really
proud to be hosting Rubén Zamora here in Wales. He has a
distinguished career as a diplomat and social democratic politician
who was a passionate advocate for peace throughout the country's
civil war until 1992. As a founding member of the political
opposition front, the FDR, Zamora travelled the world to build
up diplomatic support for peace negotiations, but was forced to
spend some years in exile following...Request free trial
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AM:...I'm really
proud to be hosting Rubén Zamora here in Wales. He has a
distinguished career as a diplomat and social democratic politician
who was a passionate advocate for peace throughout the country's
civil war until 1992. As a founding member of the political
opposition front, the FDR, Zamora travelled the world to build
up diplomatic support for peace negotiations, but was forced to
spend some years in exile following threats to his family. Last
year, Rubén Zamora stepped down as El Salvador's
representative at the United Nations, having previously served as
an ambassador to the United States and to India. I'm delighted to be part of Ruben's
visit to the UK...
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on young people and communities
AM:...Now, I'm
aware that, in India, where depopulation in rural areas
with outward migration to the cities is a huge problem, there is a
specific scheme there to retain those connections between someone
who has skills let's say you're an accountant working in the city,
you retain that connection with your home community, where you can
perhaps use some of those skills to help local committees with
their annual audits and so on. There's a great deal that we can do,
and that figure of 117,000 people having left the western region
was very striking, and it brought to mind a scheme run by one local
authority in the west of Ireland that responds directly to
depopulation, where they proactively work to attract people back.
They are almost a recruitment agency, but they are also a marketing
agency that packages an offer: 'Come back to work in a green,
healthy area, an environmentally friendly area where, with the
rural schools, the classes are smaller and the pupil-teacher ratio
is smaller it's a marketing campaign, almost, where they package
the offer in a very attractive way to attract those people back to
those communities...
AM:...I can
actually see this in my own constituency. I can tell you this.
Sony, which has been through massive changes over the years,one of
the things they have is the Sony Pencoed technology park. They
have about 30 companies there; some high tech, digital, as
well as manufacturing; right at the cutting edge of technology. I
spoke to three individuals there who had set up a company. This
company are global leaders in supplying the batteries that work the
mobile antennae around the country. They're global leaders. Of the
three of them, one is Canadian, one is from Cardiff, and one is
from India. All three of them studied at Cardiff
University in business, in engineering et cetera. They all chose to
actually stay in Wales and work. Now, that's what we need to see
more of. I often use this phrase: we can see what 'good' looks
like...
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