Secretary of State for Democratic Memory, Madrid

The Secretary of State for Democratic Memory, Fernando Martínez, and the Councilor for Citizen Relations of the Provincial Government of Navarre, Ana Ollo, have held a telematic meeting in which they have addressed various ways of collaboration between the two institutions in the field of democratic memory. These avenues of collaboration will be substantiated in the signing of an agreement between the two Administrations.

The meeting, which has been held in a climate of total collaboration, has brought to the table important issues such as the Four-Year Exhumation Plan, provided for in the new Democratic Memory Act, and which will encourage public administrations to take charge of the entire process of exhumation of people who are still buried in mass graves. Within the framework of this agreement, both administrations will cooperate in the further development of the Map of Graves and in the location and cataloguing of places of memory within the foral community, the creation of a DNA bank or a census of missing persons.

The meeting demonstrated the concurrence of interests on both sides in the dissemination of democratic memory. In this regard, cooperation will be strengthened on issues related to archives and, in particular, the Navarre Memory Documentation Center and the Navarre Program of Schools with Memory.