The Diplomat
The acting President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, yesterday received the Chargé d’Affaires of the United States in Spain, Conrad Tribble, in her office at the Real Casa de Correos, in a meeting requested by the US Embassy, which lasted for an hour.
Tribble has been in charge of the US diplomatic representation since the departure in January of the ambassador, Duke Buchan, and is waiting for Joe Biden to name his replacement.
The meeting comes a day after the US president shared a half-minute walk with the head of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, at the NATO summit in Brussels, which Díaz Ayuso described as the “26-step summit”.
The meeting held yesterday had been requested several days ago and is not the first contact with the Embassy, since, during the previous legislature, Díaz Ayuso met with Ambassador Buchan, as well as with representatives of the US Chamber of Commerce in Spain.
The meeting between the acting President of Madrid and the US Chargé d’Affaires was also attended by the Regional Minister for Education and Youth and spokesperson for the Regional Government, Enrique Ossorio, and the conversation focused on the need to continue facilitating commercial, institutional and knowledge-sharing relations between the region and the United States, according to a note from the Community of Madrid.
The note adds that Díaz Ayuso conveyed to the Embassy “the Madrid model based on freedom, low taxes and the individual as the axis of policies and openness to the outside world”.
She also requested a review of tariffs for Madrid producers exporting to the United States and discussed with the US diplomat the importance of sustainable growth and how investment and joint efforts will achieve an economic model with zero net CO2 emissions by 2050, the note said.
Since winning the elections held on 4 May, Díaz Ayuso has received many requests for meetings from ambassadors accredited in Spain, although so far he has only been able to meet with Tribble and the Israeli ambassador, Rodica Radian-Gordon, whom he received on 20 May, and with whom he pledged to eradicate anti-Semitism.
