The President of the United States, Joe Biden This Friday insisted the President of the Government of Spain, pedro sanchez His appreciation for the agreement to welcome Latin American migrants. Biden expressed his appreciation for the role the Sanchez government played in the agreement announced in April for Spain and Canada. Welcoming Ibero-American Immigrants Those who usually migrate to the United States and whose applications will now be processed in centers that Washington plans to build soon in Colombia and Guatemala.
“We signed that cooperation agreement and I thank you as well,” remarked the US leader, who expressed his gratitude to Sanchez for the role he played in helping the United States in the American continent’s migration crisis. Spain is playing.
At the time, Biden appeared to go off script and in a gesture of goodwill with Sanchez said: “You’re doing an incredible job” …
Similarly, Biden referred to the agreement that Spain and the United States signed in Madrid last Monday An increase from four to six US destroyers deployed to the Joint Naval Base Rota (Cadiz), are the only ones permanently based in a European port near Washington.
Finally, the US President noted the opportunity to work with the President of the Spanish Government on a variety of issues, taking advantage of the fact that Spain will assume the Presidency of the European Union (EU) on July 1.
Agreement on pigeons
Among the findings of their meeting, the two presidents agreed that technical teams from both countries would meet “as soon as possible” to work on a permanent solution. Clean up plutonium-contaminated soil at Palomares (Almeria).
«There has clearly been progress on Palomares and you will see it in the summary of the bilateral meeting, We have agreed to show our willingness to solve this problem And we have moved the technical teams to meet as soon as possible so that, once and for all, we can drain these contaminated land and be able to get them out of Spain,” Sánchez explained.
Mere “receptivity” around tariffs on black olives, but no deal
Sanchez also said this Friday that he found an “aptitude” in US President Joe Biden to find a solution to the problem. Black Table Olive Tariff Maintained by the United States on this product of Spain. However, agreement has not been reached.
«On Black Olive, I have found receptivity on the part of the Biden administration. It should be remembered that this is a question that World Trade Organization” Sanchez said, relieving Biden of Spanish pressure.
The head of the Spanish government acknowledged that the issue of black olives has been “an element of friction” in relations with the United States.
