Spain finalizes the details of the visit by this week the president of the United States, Barack Obama , and that Madrid considered the growing bilateral relations, which make the two countries privileged partners are certified.
Obama will travel to Spain on Saturday, July 9, at the end of the NATO summit to be held in Warsaw and which will coincide with the chief executive in office, Mariano Rajoy.
the American president initially move to Sevilla , which is expected to be received by the king Philip VI , and the next day will visit the naval base of Rota in Cadiz.
on Monday, the 11th, will meet with Felipe VI in the Palacio de la Zarzuela and Rajoy in the Palacio de la Moncloa .
Government sources consulted by Efe highlight the significance of Obama’s trip to Spain but has been realized in the final stretch of his mandate because they interpret it as a sign of the harmony between the two governments and how much they can continue working.
the Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo said after taking official visit of US President that this implies the “culmination a process of normalization “of diplomatic relations, affected by the policy pursued by former President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.
in fact, the last visit to Spain of a president of the United States took place ago fifteen when George W. Bush traveled to the country in June 2001 with Jose Maria Aznar as head of government.
This will be the first time Obama trip to Spain as president of the United States, although already visited the country in 1988 when they toured as “backpacker” several European countries and made stops in Madrid and Barcelona before moving to Kenya to meet the people of his father.
on his trip this week, the first stop US President will Sevilla, where he was later transferred to the naval base of Rota, joint use between Spain and the US for over 60 years.
there reside more than 3,500 Americans, including Marines and their families and they are anchored the four destroyers of the United States as part of the missile shield NATO.
on 25 September docked USS Carney, the fourth and last of the class destroyers Arleigh Burke guided missile, which the device US has deployed at that base was completed.
the decision to create such a shield to protect members of the Alliance of possible missile attacks was adopted at the summit Lisbon, 2010.
on May 21, 2013 came into effect the agreement allowing the deployment of four US destroyers in Rota, signed on 10 October 2012.
She made by the so-called Second Protocol Amending the Agreement on Defense Cooperation between Spain and the US, from December 1, 1988, as revised and signed at the NATO headquarters in Brussels by Defense Minister Pedro Morenés and secretary US Defense Leon Panetta.
the agreement incorporates three articles and relate specifically to the naval base of Rota and actions necessary for facilities hosting the permanent stationing four Aegis ships of the US Navy and their crews.
the shield began to settle in Rota on 15 February 2014, when he reached the first of four destroyers, Donald Cook, who joined in June of that same year, Ross and Porter in April last year.
Obama will travel to Madrid on the afternoon of Sunday, July 10, where the next day he will meet separately with the king and with the Prime Minister.
the government sources reported that Rajoy and US President addressed predictably, among other issues, the political situation in Spain following the elections on June 26 and the upcoming elections in the United States.
the process begins with the triumph of “brexit” the fight against terrorism and bilateral relations Daesh are other issues that are expected to deal at that meeting.
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