A/HRC/10/26 page 4 with regional mechanisms. The Agency supports programmes and projects of civil society on the promotion of human rights, such as research programmes with Spanish non-governmental organizations and with the International Federation for Human Rights and other relevant international networks and platforms. (d) In addition to the Agency for International Cooperation, the Government of Spain has contributed to various bilateral and voluntary funds related to human rights, such as OHCHR, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Council of Europe, the international agreement to ban anti-personnel landmines, the Organization of American States and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Spain also participates in the framework of the European Union and the different European initiatives of promotion of democracy and human rights, in particular the programme established through regulation 1889/2006. For the period 2009-2012, the Government of Spain intends to concentrate its efforts on the promotion of democratic governance and human rights, with special reference to the situation of weak States through an adequate multilateral approach. (e) The Government of Spain also supports the efforts developed by the United Nations Development Group for the inclusion of a human rights approach to the development assistance system of the United Nations according to what was developed in the network of the Development Group’s human rights policies, in the general framework of the reform of the United Nations cooperation system (“Delivering as One”). This support has been given to different “One UN” projects through the Spain-United Nations Development Programme fund to reach the Millennium Development Goals. Lastly, the Government will continue to strengthen agencies and human rights specialized organizations, universal as well as regional, and in particular OHCHR, to which Spain has allocated a total of 8,320,000 euros in contributions through the Development Aid Fund. 6. Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) [Original: Spanish] [17 December 2008] (a) The Government of Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) stressed that the obligation of the United Nations to promote international cooperation in the field of human rights cannot be separated from the obligation of States to cooperate with each other. This obligation is clearly established in international law, the Charter of the United Nations (Art. 1, para. 3), the Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, as contained in General Assembly resolution 2625 (XXV) of 24 October 1970, and the provisions of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action. (b) Cooperation among States should be based on the understanding of differences between States and the diversity of political, economic, social, cultural and religious systems. International cooperation should also be based on solidarity so that costs and obligations are