 Development cooperation is a key area of the Spanish presence in Mozambique, whose general framework is included in the Basic Agreement on Scientific and Technical Cooperation and its Annex Protocol on the Statute of Experts on Cooperation, signed in December 1980.Under this Agreement, since 1989 successive meetings of the Mixed Commission have been held, the last of which in June 2005 in Maputo (VI Mixed Commission, 2005-2008).Mozambique has been the sixth largest recipient of Spanish ODA in the world.