PORTUGAL: ENRIQUE IGLESIAS ELECTED AS HEAD OF IBERO - LATIN AMERICAN SECRETARIAT AT IBERIAN - LATIN AMERICAN SUMMIT

Record ID: 648920

  • Title: PORTUGAL: ENRIQUE IGLESIAS ELECTED AS HEAD OF IBERO - LATIN AMERICAN SECRETARIAT AT IBERIAN - LATIN AMERICAN SUMMIT
  • Date: 28th May 2005
  • Summary: (BN15) GUIMARAES (MAY 28, 2005 (REUTERS) 1. WIDE / PAN OF GUIMARAES CITY/SKYLINE 0.13 2. WIDE OF DUCAL PALACE IN GUIMARAES, THE BIRTH PLACE OF PORTUGUESE NATION 0.18 3. SLV NATIONAL FLAGS OUTSIDE BUILDING 0.24 4. CLOSE OF SIGN FOR IBERO AMERICAN SUMMIT 0.29 5. SLV PARAGUAI EXTERIOR MINISTER LEILLA RACHID DE COWLES ARRIVING AT PALACE AND BEING GREETED BY PORTUGUESE FOREIGN MINISTER DIOGO FREITAS DO AMARAL 0.48 6. VARIOUS OF BRAZILIAN SECRETARY GENERAL OF EXTERIOR AFFAIRS, SAMUEL NETO ARRIVING 1.08 7. VARIOUS OF URUGUAY FOREIGN MINISTER, REINALDO OSTUNI ARRIVING 1.26 8. VARIOUS OF SPANISH FOREIGN MINISTER, MIGUEL MORATINOS ARRIVING 1.39 9. SLV SECURITY 1.45 10. VARIOUS OF SUMMIT PARTICIPANTS BEING PHOTOGRAPHED IN FRONT OF CASTLE 2.09 11. SLV MINISTERS AND AIDES TOURING AROUND THE GUIMARAES CASTLE 2.29 12. VARIOUS OF DELEGATIONS SEATED FOR START OF SUMMIT 2.52 13. WIDE OF MINISTERS ARRIVING FOR NEWS CONFERENCE 2.59 14. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) SPANISH FOREIGN MINISTER MIGUEL MORATINOS SAYING: "Born in Spain although living in Uruguay, as reported in the media, he is an Ibero-American of excellence and therefore all the ministers and representatives gathered here express the great satisfaction of proposing this great Ibero-American person that is Enrique Iglesias for General Secretary of the Ibero-American Conference." 3.22 15. WIDE OF NEWS CONFERENCE 3.27 16. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English PORTUGUESE FOREIGN MINISTER FREITAS DO AMARAL SAYING: "Well, I must confess I don't know him personally but from what I've heard, he's a very competent manager of a very big organisation as this, Iberian Latin American organisation. We wanted to make it strong, because nowadays strong the regional organisations can be very good help to keep peace among nations and this is our first objective." (REPORTER ASKING WHEN IGLESIAS WILL START HIS POST) "He will resume as soon as he leaves the American Development Bank, sometime between July and August. In any he will be already working for the preparations for the summit in Salamanca in October." 4.24 17. VARIOUS OF MINISTERS AND AIDES WATCHING FROM BALCONY 4.36 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 12th June 2005 13:00
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  • Location: GUIMARAES, PORTUGAL
  • Country: Portugal
  • Reuters ID: LVA81VZ05BBEPHK43IVLOH2CSM0N
  • Story Text: Inter-American Development Bank President Enrique
    Iglesias named first secretary-general to coordinate
    Ibero-American ties at meeting of foreign ministers in
    Portugal.



    Ibero-American Foreign Ministers elected on Saturday
    (May 28) current Inter-American Development Bank President
    Enrique Iglesias as head of newly formed secretariat aimed
    at coordinating Ibero-American ties.

    Enrique Iglesias was unanimously chosen as General
    Ibero-American Secretariat, head of a group promoting
    closer ties among Spain, Portugal and Latin America.

    The secretariat aimed at coordinating policy among 22
    countries was created at an Ibero-American summit in Costa
    Rica last year. The secretariat will be based in Madrid.

    The next summit of Heads of State is to be held in
    Salamanca, Spain in October 2005.

    Portuguese Foreign Minister Diogo Freitas do Amaral
    said Iglesias, elected at a Saturday meeting of
    Ibero-American ministers in Guimaraes, will assume his new
    job as soon as he finishes his functions at the
    Inter-American Development Bank.

    Iglesias joined the Latin America's development lender in
    1988 and steered the region through a series of economic
    crises in Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina into the
    current period of relative stability and growth.

    Spanish-born Iglesias, who is a naturalized Uruguayan
    citizen, taught development economics and worked as
    Uruguay's Central Bank President earlier in his career.

    He also served as Uruguay's Foreign Relations Minister
    and chief of the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America
    and the Caribbean before moving to the IADB.



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