Sánchez will seek to strengthen his international image and vindicate Spain on his trip to the UN Assembly

The president will promote a summit on food security, meet with investors and hold several bilateral meetings

MADRID, 19 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, travels to New York on Monday for the UN General Assembly with a busy agenda with which he seeks to vindicate Spain's role at a global level in various issues as well as its economy and re-stage its image as an international leader.

This will be the fifth time that Sánchez has spoken before the UN General Assembly --in 2020 he did so by videoconference due to the pandemic--, although on this occasion his speech will be precisely the last act of an agenda that will start on Monday and close on Monday. Thursday afternoon.

In Moncloa, the objective of this trip has been to highlight Spain's contribution in the search for solutions to global challenges such as the energy or food crisis, as well as to reinforce the country's image outside its borders, putting in value the current economic situation, government sources have explained.

Sánchez also wants to assert his commitment to multilateralism and his image as an international leader, greatly strengthened thanks to the NATO summit last June in Madrid, hence his being the promoter of a summit on food security to be held on Tuesday.

The meeting, which seeks to promote dialogue on this problem and its causes and try to find solutions to the incipient food insecurity, will be co-sponsored by the European Union, the African Union and the United States. The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, the President of Senegal and current President of the AU, Macky Sall, and the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, as well as other world leaders, UN agencies and members of the civil society.

The other major multilateral event that he will attend will take place on Wednesday. The president will inaugurate, together with the Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Motley, the conference organized by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in which the report on the status of the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) will be presented.

Apart from these acts, Moncloa has also prepared two acts of an economic nature. On the one hand, on Wednesday the forum 'Latin America, Spain and the United States in the global economy' will take place, organized by the Chamber of Commerce and which will also include the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, as well as several Latin American ministers and businessmen.

On Thursday, Sánchez will hold a breakfast with representatives of investment funds, including JPMorgan and Carlile. According to government sources, with these appointments what is sought is to convey a message of confidence in the Spanish economy and its strengths and to publicize the measures that are being taken and those that are planned to be taken.

As on previous occasions, the president will offer several interviews to US media in which he will also take the opportunity to convey this same message. Likewise, a meeting with the editorial board of the 'New York Times' is planned, the sources have specified.

On the other hand, the President of the Government will take advantage of his stay in New York and the presence of numerous world leaders to hold various bilateral meetings, starting with a meeting with Guterres this Monday.

On Wednesday, in addition to holding a first meeting with the Chilean president, Gabriel Boric, both have organized a tribute ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the speech delivered by Salvador Allende before the UN General Assembly, an inspiring and mythical speech among social democracy world. The daughter of the former Chilean president, Isabel Allende, has also been invited to the event at the Cervantes Institute in New York.

Sánchez will also hold a meeting with the new British Prime Minister, Liz Truss, in office since September 6 and who has expressly requested the meeting. This first contact will serve both to get to know each other personally and to address different aspects of the intense and deep bilateral agenda between the two countries, the sources explained.

The president will also have a first meeting with the new president of Costa Rica, Rodrigo Chaves, in office since May, as well as with the president of Bolivia, Luis Arce. Likewise, there are bilateral plans with the president of Niger, Mohamed Bazum, as well as with the leaders of Pakistan and Iraq, and the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas.

On the other hand, on Tuesday he will offer a reception to the Spanish residents in New York at the Embassy before the UN and on Wednesday he will attend the traditional reception that the US president, Joe Biden, offers to the world leaders who travel to New York with occasion of the General Assembly.