The Diplomat
Ambassadors, writers, artists, intellectuals, university professors, doctors and journalists gathered on March 30 at the Basilica Nuestra Señora de la Concepción in Madrid to attend the funeral mass for Joaquín Antuña, founder and president of Paz y Cooperación, on the third anniversary of his death.
The International Foundation Paz y Cooperación, chaired by Rosa Olazabal, organized the celebration, which was attended among others the Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Spain, Ramiz Hasanov, and Ambassador of Spain Arturo Perez Martinez, accompanied by his wife, Kayoko Takagi. The religious ceremony was also attended by friends of the deceased, including foreign diplomatic officials accredited in Spain such as Khaldun Almassri, first secretary of the State of Palestine.
Joaquín Antuña, was born on March 10, 1937 and died on March 30, 2020. “He was a tireless worker as an institutional leader; his idea was to unite the concepts of disarmament and development, that is, to oppose the culture of peace to the culture of violence,” recalls in a statement Paz y Cooperación, the NGO of which he was president for 38 years.
He personally met great figures such as Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Mahatma Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Winnie and Nelson Mandela, Miguel Angel Asturias and Aurelio Peccei, founder of the Club of Rome, among others.
