Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik's State Visit to Mexico; February 19th-21st, 2008
 

Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik will pay a State Visit to Mexico from February 19th to 21st.

Statsbesøg i Mexico 2008 - Danmarks ambassade Mexico

So, does anybody have the programme of the visit? It would be interesting to know what they will be visiting.

Official program for today February 18. (Source, Presidency Mexico)

(10:30, local time, + 7 hours Danish time)
Official Wellcome Ceremony to Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II
National Palace.

(19:50, local time)
Dinner in Honor to H.M the Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and H.R.H. Henrik of Denmark, Prince consort, offers by the President of the United States of Mexico and his wife, the Lady Margarita Zavala.
Chapultepec Castle, Mexico DF

México - Presidencia de la República | Agenda

Also Queen and Prince Consort will meeting with Mexican Filmmakers in the opening of the V International Festival of Contemporary cinema, as part of this State Visit
Also they will do numbersof activities with Danish and Mexicans businessmen for promote the commercial flow among both Countries.

(Thanks Marengo)

On the occasion of H.M.'s the Queen and H.R.H. the Prince Consort visit, the Embassy of Denmark organizes a business forum in cooperation with the Federation of Danish Industrias focused in the following sectors: Energy, Nourishing industry, Sciences / Pharmacists, Environment.
The business Forum will be officially opened by the Prince Consort the Wednesday On February 20.

At the end, the companies are invited to a business food where there will take part the Queen and the Prince Consort

Foro de Negocios México – Dinamarca 2008 - Embajada de Dinamarca Mexico

Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik, during a ceremony in front of the monument of the Hero Children in Mexico City today.

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Official Wellcome Ceremony with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and his wife in National Palace.

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Pictures from Yahoo! can be found here. They include ones from the day, and from the dinner held last night at Chapultepec Castle :flowers:

A few more official Wellcome
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Official Dinner, The Queen received the decoration of the Aztec Eagle from Mexican President Felipe Calderon.

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Video from DK Update.
Dronningen på officielt besøg i Mexico - dr.dk/NETTV/Update

Speech by H.M. The Queen in the official Dinner. (Sumary)


"Mister President.

Lady Margarita Zavala:

The Prince Consort and I have waited longingly for this visit to Mexico, twice planned and twice postponed. But when last year, in your visit to Denmark, you, Mister President, renewed the invitation for a Visit of State, we were been charmed with of agreeing.
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The receipt of which we have been an object has affected and impressed us very much, especially because both we have visited your country in different occasions, and both we hoard recollections of Mexico and of his impressive and colouring culture, so much passed as present.
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Mister President:
It is true that in many aspects Mexico and Denmark are very different countries; different in geographical size, climate, size of population, etc, but we share many values jointly: our beliefs obout the freedom, democracy and the human rights, allowing to the people to follow their aspirations with freedom.
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Both Mexico and Denmark favors a multilateral approach before international conflicts and, therefore, we support the roleand importance of the United Nations Organization, as well as the beginning included in its Charter.
Nevertheless, the collaboration in international forums will never be able to replace to the maintenance and promotion of the bilateral relations, of which the present Visit is an excellent example, which as assurance will use to strengthen the already excellent relations between our countries and villages.
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Denmark and Mexico also share a common worry for the climatic change. Denmark waits to cooperate together with Mexico, with the purpose of achieving a global and enclosing agreement in the Summit of the Climate of Copenhagen in 2009.
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The Prince Consort and I expect to present longingly for the Mexican public only a small part of what Denmark can offer.
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Mister President.

Lady Margarita Zavala:

The Prince Consort joins me on having lifted my glass in a toast for a brilliant future for the bilateral relations between Mexico and Denmark, for the well-being and good health of the President of the United States of Mexico, and of the lady Margarita Zavala, and for the happiness and prosperity of Mexico and the whole Mexican people.

Souce: http://www.presidencia.gob.mx/prensa/?contenido=33884

From the dinner
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QM's jacket is really pretty, I also liked the white outfit for the arrival matched up with the blue, very elegent.

Wich Decoration is this?
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Yes, she does look quite elegant. I have to say that even Prince Henrik is looking healthier lately.

Dannebrog Order
 

The second highest in Denmark, usually given to first ladies.

Today, Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik will visit National Museum Of Antropology, Which is most visited museum in Mexico.

Thanks Mr. Peter, Do you know the name of this decoration?

Thanks Marta for the info!!!

It's the Order of the Dannebrog.

Yesterday Queen Margrethe and Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard at the opening the Festival Internacional de Cine Contemporaneo (FICCO in Spanish) in Mexico City.
19/02/08

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Visit to the National Museum of Anthropology and History in Mexico City.
19/02/08

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Queen Margrethe around the new Danish Grundfos factory in San Louis Potosi by Grundfos head Niels Due Jensen with the wife of the Mexican president Margarita Zavala.

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Queen Margrethe walks the streets of San Louis Potosi togethher with Gouvernor of the city, Marcelo de los Santos, and the wife of the Mexican president Margarita Zavala.

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Lots of photos in London Features International.

Official Wellcome

Official Dinner

Queen Margrethe visits Wednesday 20. february the orphanage Casa Sonrisa in Mexico City.

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Queen Margrethe at San Carlos National Museum where she inaugurated the '56 degrees North 10 degrees East Contemporary Art of Denmark' in Ciudad de Mexico

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And more photos from the visit to the Antrhopology museumn and opening of FICCO. (The best ones)

London Features International

Nice pictures of Margrethe with the children - she seems more comfident with babies and children now when she is a grandmother herself than before where she often looked scared and uncomfortable.

:flowers:

Thanks Paty for the great pictures you have provided during this state visit! :flowers::flowers::flowers: I see that Margrethe took her trusty State-Visit-Hat with her to Mexico - the red hat in the last batch of pictures has appeared at pretty much every state visit in the past 2-3 years! :biggrin:

Queen Margrethe smiles as she visits the Antaras Mall in Mexico City on February 21st

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Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik during a reception for the Danish community in Mexico on February 21st

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(ANP)

Will there not be a gala dinner during this visit? Not even a black-tie event??
I was looking forward to seeing Queen Margrethe in a tiara again! Although she looked great, and very regal, at the official dinner.

Your wellcome JessRulz!!!:flowers:

Prince Consort Henrik of Denmark visits Bimbo, one the worlds biggest food producers, Thursdag 21. February

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