He met with President Barack Obama at the White House earlier this week where the pair discussed the importance of working together to ensure refugees are safe and treated with shared humanity.
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The president said Spain had worked hard in the past to deal with the North African refugeess engaged in risky travel and human trafficking.
Yes, King Felipe VI plans to drop by the Freedom Tower to give a masterclass later this evening and then will head off to the opening of a Spanish film festival with his wife Queen Letizia. “Obviously, that’s gotten worse over the last several months”.
“And I discussed the fact that the United States feels it is important for us to also take our share of Syrian refugees as part of this overall humanitarian effort”.
Catalans will vote in a regional election on September 27 that local politicians are billing as a de facto referendum on independence.
According to a statement from the White House, their visit “reinforces the strong and enduring exhausted between the American and Spanish people”.
Prior to the White House, the King and Queen of Spain will visit the Washington Monument and lay flowers at Mount Vernon Cemetery.
It was the royal couple’s first visit to the United States since assuming the throne.
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King Felipe VI on Wednesday encouraged a group of top executives of US multinationals to have confidence in Spain as a country that is surging back strongly from its economic crisis and as a nation that is modern, trustworthy, creative, open and ready to overcome the difficulties and challenges that lie ahead.
