The Diplomat
The president-elect of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, has had contacts with members of the Ibero-American General Secretariat (Segib) and with representatives of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organisations (CEOE) during his stay in Madrid, according to Efe.
At the meeting, which was attended by the Ambassador to Spain, Andrés Vallejo, they discussed, among other things, preparations for the next Ibero-American summit to be held in Quito in 2024.
Noboa arrived in Madrid on Friday on a private visit that he had apparently planned even before his election victory, after a stopover in Colombia, where he was received by the country’s foreign minister, Álvaro Leyva.
In Spain, the Ecuadorian president-elect is not known to have had any contact with any member of the government or the royal family. The King was away from Madrid on Friday at the Princess of Asturias Awards ceremony in Oviedo, and both the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, participated yesterday in the Cairo summit on the war between Israel and Hamas.
Noboa will also travel to Italy and the United States, in a short period of time and on a private trip, before he takes office as president on 20 November for a period of about fifteen months, after which there will be new elections in Ecuador.
