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Kings travel to Uruguay, for Latin-American Summit, and Paraguay
The Kings will travel tomorrow to Uruguay to be present from Friday until Sunday in Montevideo at the XVI Summit Latin-American, which this year will discuss migrations and development, after which they will initiate on Monday a visit of State to Paraguay of two days of duration.
Don Juan Carlos is the only chief of State or of Latin-American Government who has been present at all the Summits celebrated up to the moment, in two of which - in Madrid in 1992 and last year in Salamanca - he has been a host.
From the first one, in Guadalajara (Mexico) in 1991, it corresponds to the King to inaugurate this annual meeting of the first agents chief executive of a Community of Nations pawned in reinforcing its role and its presence in the world and that advances on the common base of a language and of five centuries of history.
By virtue of this tradition, don Juan Carlos will declare opened the Summit XVI Latin-American on Friday evening during a solemn act that will take as a scene the Theatre Solís of the Uruguayan capital, to where the Kings will come this morning, immediately later that the prime minister, Jose Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
' Migrations and development ' it is the motto of a Summit that takes place to a few days of which the American president, George W. Bush, was signing the construction of a wall of more than thousand kilometres of length with that administration wants to stop the migratory pressure in the border with Mexico, where the measure has caused deep discomfort.
The Summit, according to diplomatic Spanish sources, will work in order that the final declaration includes an agreed by consensus and clear position on the immigration, sensitive question for all the countries, and not only a reference, since it has happened in previous editions.
In Montevideo, the Spanish delegation will ask for the support of the Latin-American Community to the initiative of Spain and Turkey, assumed by United Nations, for an Alliance of Civilizations, they added the same sources.
While the King, who will celebrate several bilateral meetings, as the already traditional one with the president of Mexico, and the rest of chiefs of State or of Government attend the plenary ones of the Summit, the Queen and other first ladies will develop a parallel program of activities.
Concluded the Latin-American Summit XVI on Sunday to the midday, the Kings will wait to Monday morning to travel to Paraguay, in that it will be their second visit of State - the first one was in 1990-
To this priority country for the Spanish Cooperation and that grows far below of their neighbors and associates in Mercosur: Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela and Uruguay.
The young Paraguayan democracy receives the Kings in a moment of economic uncertainty and with the hope, according to the Spanish diplomacy, of reducing a few bilateral relations that in the economic thing throw a few slightly significant numbers.
In 2005, Spain imported Paraguayan products, especially agricultural, for matter closely of twelve million Euros, whereas the exports to this country of scarcely six millions of inhabitants did not reach eighteen millions.
Between January and May, 2006, according to information of the Spanish Department of Exteriors, the imports added more than 21 million Euros, whereas the exports fell to little more than five.
The president of the Republic, Nicanor Duarte, in whose capture of possession in 2003 the Prince of Asturias was, representing his father, will receive the Kings in Asunción's airport on Monday morning, and he will offer them a dinner of gala at the end of the day in the Palace of Government.
Between one and other one acts, the Kings will realize a floral offering in the National Pantheon of the Heroes and will offer a receipt to the Spanish colony, approximately three thousand persons.
Don Juan Carlos will celebrate a meeting work with the president Duarte while the Queen and the first Paraguayan lady be in Tablada's Community Center, dedicated to the social attention.
Before returning to Spain on Tuesday, the 7th evening, they will inaugurate the remodeling of the Plaza of Asunción's Spain, works realized together between the Municipality of the Paraguayan capital and Spanish Cooperation, and will visit the Cultural Center of Spain 'Juan de Salazar', where they will see a painters' exhibition of the islands Balearics.
In this bilingual country, where Spanish and Guarani speaks, the Kings will know the Program of Basic Bilingual Education for young and adults (Prodepa).
Paraguay has contracted with Spain a debt near to 28 million Euros - number of 2005-, though the governments of both countries are employed at an agreement to exchange part of the above mentioned debt for education, and that there would sign the president Duarte during a visit to Spain, probably next year.
Oh my God, I hope everything turns out to be good and soon she feels better...
I like the photos of JC and the President of Portugal.
