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The Catalan Government has spent 3,500 dollars (about 3,250 euros) for a luminous advertisement in Times Square in New York (United States) that was visible 24 hours last April 26. To ‘inaugurate’ the advertisement, which promoted the use of the Catalan language on the Internet, the Vice President of the Generalitat, Jordi Puigneró, traveled to the United States with an entourage whose overall cost was 38,720.22 euros.
As recorded in three separate responses to the PSC, Vox and Cs, published today by the Official Gazette of the Parliament of Catalonia, Puigneró himself has reported the amount of a trip that took place between April 25 and 28 of this year and to which the regional vice president was accompanied by at least seven people to participate in the High Level meetings of UN Habitat including the presentation of a collaboration agreement between the UN and the Generalitat on the Lands of the Ebro.
I traveled to New York to defend in the framework of the United Nations 3 rights for Catalonia in the 21st century: territorial equality, human digital rights and linguistic rights. pic.twitter.com/nk83ehdwgR
— Jordi Pu1gnerO (@jordiPuignero) April 26, 2022
Taking advantage of the trip, Puigneró has indicated in the responses consulted by ABC, the department that the highest representative of Junts in the Govern presented the Aina project (a ‘software’ for technology to use the Catalan language) to the Catalan-speaking community in the United States, in particular, and America, in general, through an act that was broadcast live by Radio America BCN.
«Within the framework of this act, the Government projected an advertisement in one of the screens in times square in which the need for Catalan to be present on the internet and in the digital age was claimed, promoting the participation and dissemination of the Catalan language and the Aina project”, said the Vice President of the Generalitat, who added that during the 24 hours that the ad was displayed it was screened 480 times.
Puigneró and his entourage also met with “entities for the defense of fundamental digital rights”, moments in which the Catalan Government took the opportunity to “denounce the facts of the espionage by Pegasus and the case of the ‘Catalan Gate’ and the need for a joint international offensive and action was claimed to clarify the facts and start the task of creating and approving a charter of fundamental digital rights at European and global level».
— Jordi Pu1gnerO (@jordiPuignero) April 29, 2022
In addition to Puigneró, the director general of Nación Digital y Agenda Urbana also traveled to New York, Maria Galindo; the director of the Office of the Vice President, Xavier Catarineu; the head of the Communications Office, Vanessa Hernandez; the head of the Cabinet of External Relations and Protocol, Francesc Xavier Miret; the director of the Catalan Soil Institute (Incasol), Mercè Conesa; another unidentified member of Incasol and the escort of the vice president of the Generalitat.
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George is Digismak’s reported cum editor with 13 years of experience in Journalism