Posted on 10/24/2006 6:42:33 PM PDT by Esther Ruth
http://www.euroresidentes.com/euroresiuk/Spanish_Government/Miguel_Angel_Moratinos.htm
Miguel Angel Moratinos, the new Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain, is an experienced diplomat and politician. Born in 1951 in Madrid, Moratinos holds a degree in Law and Political Sciences and is fluent in French and English. He also knows some Russian and Serbo-Croatian.
He holds the following honours:
Knight of the Order of Civil Merit,
Officer of the Order of Isabel the Catholic Queen,
Commander of Civil Merit,
Commander of the Alaouite "Ouissan" Order of Morocco,
Commander of the Order of the Republic of Tunisia,
Commander of the Order of Isabel the Catholic Queen,
Cooperation Prize of the Arab Journalists Association (Presented by H.M. the King in 1994),
Alaoute Ouissan Order (Officer) and
Commander of the Orange-Nassau Order of the Netherlands.
Moratinos has held the following international diplomatic posts:
* 1974-1979: Director - Head of the Eastern Europe Coordination Desk
* 1979-1980: First Secretary at the Spanish Embassy in Yugoslavia
* 1980-1984: Chargé d'affaires at the Spanish Embassy in Yugoslavia
* 1984-1987: Political adviser at the Spanish Embassy to Rabat
* 1987-1991: Deputy Director General for Northern Africa
* 1991-1993: Director General of the Institute for Cooperation with the Arab World
* 1993-1996: Director General of Foreign Policy for Africa and the Middle East when Javier Solana was Foreign Affairs Minister of Spain.
* 1996: Ambassador of Spain in Israel
* 1996-2003: EU Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process.
* 2004- : Foreign Minister of Spain.
Moratinos is married to a French woman and has three children. He is committed to finding peaceful ways to end the conflict in the Middle East. A firm believer in a strong Europe, one of his priorities is to improve Spanish relations with key member states of the European Union.
An excerpt from that first article, Spain antisemitism...
Although according to Zapatero, Hizbullah and Israel are the same thing, he offers no words of condemnation for the Party of Allah, spending 100 percent of the time explaining, in a rather twisted way, that Israel should let Hizbullah kill Israelis.
Much of the theory belongs to controversial Spanish FM Miguel Angel Moratinos. EU envoy to the Middle East before and sinking in rumours of links to Hamas long before he left, Moratinos arrived to the foreign ministry cleaning the Elcano Institute up, firing the most prestigious experts and bringing in a group of friends of the oppression theory.
Since then, amid support for Castro and Chavez and mysterious support to Bolivia in order to bring Evo Morales to power, the Spanish FM has proved he has nothing to envy in terms of anti-Americanism, but nobody ever expected an explosion of anti-Semitism in Spain this big. It seems once more that the Jews are the canary in the mine, and the United States should take note.
Rest of World: Spanish government not working, need new election in Spain
Perhaps because "King of Jerusalem" has been one of the King of Spain's titles since the late thirteenth century. Previously the title had belonged to the Holy Roman Emperor, but the HREs lost it when the ruling Hohenstaufen dynasty became extinct, and the rulers of Aragon, in what is now eastern Spain, put forth a better claim to the title than anybody else had.
"(Zapatero) is very pro-Muslim, though; last week, he announced that the Spanish government was fully funding a set of religious textbooks, theoretically for Muslim children but being printed in a quantity way above that of the known number of Muslim children in Spanish schools, which is called "Getting to Know Islam" (in Spanish, of course)."
You can be sure it will be full of PC-sanitized bullshit.
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