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Offered in the Real Palace of Madrid by Their Majestys the Kings and HRH Prince of Asturias
Their Majestys the Kings and HRH Prince de Asturias have offered in the Real Palace of Madrid the traditional reception to the credited Diplomatic Corps in Spain.
After arriving at the Real Palace, the Kings and the Prince went to the Saleta de Gasparini, where they were saluted by the president of the Government, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, and the minister of Outer Subjects and Cooperation, Miguel Angel Moratinos Cuyaubé, next to receive the greeting of the Diplomatic Body credited in Spain and the High Positions of the Ministry of Outer Subjects and Cooperation. Once finalized, they acceded to the Hall the Throne, where after the words of the Apostolic Nuncio of Santa Sede, Monsignor Manuel Monteiro de Castro - like dean of the credited Diplomatic Corps in Spain -,
His Majesty the King pronounced a speech, in which he remembered the most significant landmarks of the Spanish foreign policy of the last year, like the process of European integration, the Latin American Summit of Salamanca and the Euromediterránea Summit of Barcelona, and emphasized the next opening of the House of Africa, the Sefarad House and the Arab House.
The King emphasized the bet of Spain by an effective multilateral diplomacy and the importance of the paper of United Nations, showing that "only from the agreement and the understanding we will be able successfully to confront the exigencies derived from international La Paz and the security, the promotion of the democracy, the respect to the human rights, the fight against the poverty and the inequality, the combat against AIDS and other pandemics or the environmental deterioration".
Also, he made a review of the main lines of the foreign policy of our country, as the commitment of Spain in the fight against the terrorism, to guarantee international La Paz and security, and the reinforcing of the Spanish Cooperation. Later, the assistants conversed in the Hall Columns, with which he concluded the act.
