King and Queen of Spain Complete Historic North African Tour with Visit to Melilla
The visit completed Felipe VI’s tour of Spain’s autonomous regions and cities and included a Golden Key ceremony and meetings on security and economic issues.
- On Wednesday, King Felipe and Queen Letizia arrived in Melilla, marking the monarch's first official visit to the North African autonomous city since his accession to the throne in 2014.
- This historic visit completes King Felipe's tour of all Spanish autonomous regions following his stay in Ceuta, occurring 19 years after King Juan Carlos and Queen Sof last visited Melilla in 2007.
- Upon landing, the royal couple traveled to the Plaza de Espa, where regional president Juan Jos Imbroda received them at the Assembly Palace and presented the Golden Key to the King.
- The royal pair then visited the CEIP Pintor Eduardo Morillas primary school, renowned for social inclusion, where they met staff and pupils to observe the city's intercultural and interfaith coexistence.
- Concluding at the Hotel Melilla Puerto, the King addressed the Mesa Interconfesional, reaffirming Spain's unconditional backing and declaring national sovereignty over its North African territories indisputable and non-negotiable.
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As in Ceuta, the sovereigns, greeted by an enthusiastic crowd waving Spanish flags, spent long minutes shaking hands and pose for pictures for the inhabitants who had invaded the streets of the city centre. King Felipe VI is due to speak at the end of the afternoon before representatives of civil society, after an exchange with the local authorities and a visit to a school, according to the royal house in Madrid. This is the first time since his…
The autonomous president, Juan José Imbroda, has given to Philip VI the Golden Key of the city
Spain's king visits Melilla after defending sovereignty over North African territories
Spain's King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia visited Melilla on Wednesday, a day after visiting Ceuta, where the monarch defended Spanish sovereignty over the two North African territories claimed by Morocco.
The Kings come to Melilla on a historic visit that arrives two and a half months after the invasion of the autonomous city of Ceuta.
The Kings landed this Wednesday in Melilla on a day of popular claim history, in which the city took the Royal House as a parapet to scare away its ghosts and recognize it as the only figure of the State able to defend its Spanishity. “Europe has to protect us and be firm; if it has to put sanctions for the invasion that puts them. We cannot allow that to happen in Ceuta. There is restlessness. We don’t know if it will happen,” says Rosa Zapata,…
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