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The Kings will do a visit of State to Jordan between 24 and on April 26
The Kings of Spain will do a visit of State to Jordan between the 24th and 26th of April, the invited by the King Abdalá of Jordan, it informed today the Headquarter of Exterior Communication.
This visit of State produces to itself only a few days after the official trip of Don Juan Carlos and Dona Sofía Saudi Arabia, in a semester full of international activity for the Royal Family, that at the beginning of April they did also a visit of State to France and before the summer they will travel to Norway.
The Kings of Spain already visited Jordan in November, 1994, and the whole Royal Family travelled to the country in February, 1999 to attend the funerales of the King Husein. Nevertheless, a visit of State had not taken placesince it began the reign of Abdalá II. In this occasion, it is foreseen that Don Juan Carlos and Dona Sofía travel to Aqaba's city besides to Amman.
Besides, in May, 2004, the Queen Sofia, the Princes of Asturias and the infanta Cristina were present in Amman at the wedding party of the Jordanian inheritor, Prince Hamza, and his cousin, Princess Noor. Don Felipe and Dona Letizia spent part at the time of their honeymoon in the country.
The monarch hachemí, on his part, did an official visit to Spain in 1999 and realized a trip deprived in 2002. In February, 2005, Abdalá II passed for Spain in the frame of an European tour and, beside being got by the King, met the prime minister, Jose Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and the minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Michael Angel Moratinos.