the king Philip VI highlighted this Friday that the relationship with Ibero-America is “so deep”, that “it even allows us to speak frankly about our possible discrepancies”, which he also considered “inevitable in so many centuries of shared history”, but he pointed out that “always from respect based on friendship“he said.
“We are Ibero-Americans, a unity in diversity, a culture of cultures“said the monarch, who has reaffirmed that Culture “is the rock on which our brotherhood is built, the element that structures our identity,” he said.
In that sense, and “in this current time of great global challenges that require the coordinated effort of everyone”, Felipe VI has considered that the “focus” of the relationship with Iberoamerica “It must be oriented towards the present, in order to prepare or build an even better future, with greater shared benefits, with greater opportunities.“.
For this reason, he stressed that “the essential thing is to gain momentum as it unites us, in our affinities, to ultimately achieve pragmatic, useful and balanced answers”, and that “reach everyone”.
Felipe VI spoke in Trujillo, during the inauguration of the ‘Meeting of the Hispano-American Academies of History: A shared history and its Academies’, which brings together representatives of the Academies of the History of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Uruguay and Spain.
