The Department of Foreign Affairs and of Cooperation has announced that Vladimir Putin, president of the Federation of Russia, will visit Spain next week.
Putin will realize this visit of State, accompanied by his wife, during next Tuesdays, the 8th and Wednesday, the 9th of February invited by the Kings, according to a communique of the department of Exteriors.
The King Juan Carlos I was got last June in the Kremlin by the Russian president. This visit was received by Putin as " a good sign that demonstrates the high degree of the relations between our countries ".
Six years before, Putin realized his first trip to Madrid, which was, precisely, the first one that he was doing abroad when came to the cargo May 7 of this year.
For their part the Kings will officially receive the Russian president - as they usually do in all foreign leaders visits - in the place which will be Putin's official residence while in Spain - El Pardo Palace
Besides the Kings will offer a dinner at the Royal Palace in honor of Putin, also as usual, and then Putin will offer a returning reception in El Pardo Palace.
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Is it already known whether the Princes of Asturias will take part in the state visit?
Tomorrow it is Friday and we will know the agenda. The Princes have an act on the 7th in Valencia, and later they have the trip to Bulgaria. The normal thing is that they come, but tomorrow we will know it assurance.
The Russian president arrives at Spain to impel the economic relations the Kings receive in the Pardo Palace to Putin to give to beginning to a visit of two days
The Kings of Spain will receive in the palace of the Brown, passed the one of afternoon, to the president of Russia, Vladímir Putin, in the act that will give the pistol shot from exit to the visit of two days that the Russian agent chief executive begins today in Spain. A visit, second from Putin to Spain after the one of 2000, with a contained fort economic, in which a reinforcement of the bilateral relations in matters is also expected as the fight against the terrorism.
EL PARDO, SPAIN: King Juan Carlos of Spain (C) flanked by Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) review the Royal Guard in Pardo's Palace near Madrid 08 February 2006. Putin arrived in Spain on Wednesday for two days of talks, with the Middle East and Iran's nuclear ambitions set to top the agenda against a backdrop of protests over Moscow's handling of the Chechen conflict. AFP PHOTO/ Pedro ARMESTRE. (Photo credit should read PEDRO ARMESTRE/AFP/Getty Images)
MADRID, Spain - Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Spain on Wednesday for a two-day visit during which the fight against international terrorism and Moscow's cooperation with international organizations will be high on the agenda.
He was greeted at the airport by Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos and immediately set out with wife Lyudmila to meet with King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia at the Palacio del Pardo, a royal guest house outside Madrid.