<h6><strong>Eduardo González</strong></h6> <h4><strong>King Felipe VI warned this Monday, during the opening of the IV International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) in Seville, that “the dizzying transition we are experiencing toward a new geopolitics cannot and must not lead to a wholesale amendment to the world of law, solidarity, and human dignity.”</strong></h4> “This conference must be a success because international cooperation is one of the cornerstones of a multilateral world, the ultimate embodiment of the values that inspire it, especially in the current historical juncture, when many certainties are dissolving and many fears and uncertainties are taking shape,” the King stated during the opening of the event. FFD4 is being held from this Monday to Thursday, July 3, in Seville. With more than 60 world leaders present, more than 200 official delegations representing 170 countries, 60 international organizations, and nearly 400 events planned, this is the largest international summit held to date in Spain, according to Moncloa. "The Sustainable Development Agenda adopted in 2015, five years after the date we set for its implementation, remains fully relevant, because global challenges still cannot be postponed," the Monarch continued during the event, held at the Conference and Exhibition Center (FIBES) in Seville. "At a time when the challenges are enormous and there is a clear lack of funding, the only possible response is efficiency," he warned. “The dizzying transition we are experiencing toward a new geopolitics cannot and should not lead to a wholesale amendment to the world of law, solidarity, and human dignity; to the world contained, among other texts, in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Charter of the United Nations,” the King stated. “We must be very vigilant to prevent that from happening: despite the difficulties, we must persist on the long path of multilateral diplomacy,” he added. “Let us make the Seville Conference a new milestone on the development agenda. We owe it to the generation of our parents and grandparents, and also to that of our children and grandchildren, and we owe it to all those who, in our own time, lack the voice and the energy to call for a better and more just world,” he concluded.
