The Diplomat
King Felipe VI held a meeting yesterday with the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, as part of his trip to New York to attend the closing ceremony of the XXVIII World Law Congress.
Don Felipe, who has traveled to New York accompanied by the Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, Luis Manuel Cuesta Civis, had lunch with Guterres at the United Nations headquarters, which was also attended by Spain’s deputy permanent representative to the UN, Ana Jiménez de la Hoz.
In the afternoon, at the Instituto Cervantes headquarters in New York, Don Felipe presented the I Joan Margarit International Poetry Prize to the American author Sharon Olds, to whom the jury unanimously awarded this award “for being a benchmark in American poetry” and for “her non-conformist and genuine writing.” The award has been promoted by the Instituto Cervantes, the publishing house La Cama Sol and the family of the poet Joan Margarit (1938-2021) to spread internationally the figure of the Catalan author, winner of the Cervantes Prize and the Reina Sofía Poetry Prize, among others. Also participating in the ceremony were Luis García Montero, director of the Instituto Cervantes; Monica Margarit, daughter of Joan Margarit; and Javier Santiso, founder of the publishing house La Cama Sol.
Today, the Monarch will close the XXVIII World Law Congress, organized by the World Jurist Association (WJA) with the motto Peace through Law and in which the World Peace & Liberty Award will be presented to the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
