The Kings will travel to Saudi Arabia in FebruaryThe Kings will travel on 16 February to Saudi Arabia, where they will hold a three-day official visit. The trip, which has not yet been announced by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs or by the Palacio de la Zarzuela, was confirmed to the program of TVE HEARING by the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Spain, Prince Mansour Bin Khalid Alfarhan Al -Saud. He explained that this visit will serve to "maintain and strengthen the already excellent and warm relations between the two countries. "
Saudi Arabia is the biggest oil producer country in the world , the second-after Venezuela reserves and one of the main suppliers of Spain. Both Kingdoms maintain excellent relations of friendship based primarily on sharing the royal families for decades, which has been key to Spanish companies to participate in the process of modernizing the Muslim country.
Indeed, the largest contract achieved so far by Spanish companies abroad was the construction of high-speed train linking the cities of Mecca and Medina, the so-called "AVE of the desert", whose budget was 6,736 million euros. The first phase of construction is scheduled for completion in 2017, and the desire of Saudi Arabia was that the King of Spain inaugurated.
The announcement of the Saudi ambassador has made ten days after King Juan Carlos conduct a private visit to Saudi Arabia, where King Salman received him walking track at the airport. Both King Salman as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, offered dinner in honor of Don Juan Carlos , who also met with the second heir, Prince Mohamed bin Salman. This trip to Riyadh was part of a tour, strictly private, which also led to Don Juan Carlos to Jordan, Bahrain and UAE.
First trip to the Queen
The last two trips Don Felipe to Saudi Arabia were very fleeting, back and forth, to offer condolences to the royal family Saudi Arabia on the death of two of its members in October 2011, following the death of Crown Prince Sultan, and in January, following the death of former King Abdullah Abdulaziz Al Saud, who succeeded King Salman. Some trips were almost six hours flying back and as many back while staying in Riyadh came just two or three hours, but the gesture was much appreciated by the Saudi Royal Family. If finally Letizia accompanies Don Felipe to Riyadh, this will be his first official trip to this Islamic kingdom where women are subject to very strict rules.
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