{"id":108419,"date":"2025-02-14T06:06:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T05:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thediplomatinspain.com\/?p=108419"},"modified":"2025-02-13T19:54:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T18:54:53","slug":"joao-mira-gomes-ends-his-mission-this-is-not-a-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thediplomatinspain.com\/en\/2025\/02\/14\/joao-mira-gomes-ends-his-mission-this-is-not-a-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"Joao Mira Gomes ends his mission: &#8220;This is not a goodbye&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><strong>The Diplomat<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>On the occasion of the end of his mission as Ambassador of Portugal to Spain, Joao Mira Gomes offered a reception last Wednesday at his official residence attended by numerous Spanish and Portuguese personalities, among them the head of HM the King&#8217;s Household, Camilo Villarino, and the Minister of Agriculture, Luis Planas.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The ambassador underlined that <strong>Spain and Portugal maintain intense and fluid relations<\/strong> covering all areas, from politics to culture, including economy, security, cooperation, research, energy development and tourism, to name but a few sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Port joked at the beginning of his speech, noting that he was not going to expand on the events of the last five years because <strong>\u201cit would be long to take stock of the last 5 years<\/strong>\u201d, and then he went on to describe each and every one of the projects, especially in infrastructure, which he described as \u201cfundamental for the future of our countries\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He referred to <strong>cross-border cooperation<\/strong> with the Spanish autonomous communities to \u201ccombat the Portugal and Spain that have been emptied\u201d; to <strong>military cooperation<\/strong> \u201cwhich we need to make stronger within the framework of NATO, the EU and the UN in the complicated times we are living in\u201d; to the <strong>cooperation of the security forces<\/strong> \u201cin the fight against organized crime\u201d; and to civil cooperation \u201cas we have seen in the fires in Portugal or the DANA tragedy in Spain\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>All this within the framework of a solid <strong>political cooperation<\/strong>, both in the Ibero-American and European frameworks, and of a <strong>business cooperation<\/strong> that has contributed to form a more integrated market with greater exporting capacity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNor will I speak,\u201d he concluded, \u201dof <strong>educational cooperation<\/strong>, from which 55,000 Portuguese students in Spain benefit, or of <strong>tourism<\/strong>, which has set a record for visitors to both countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Without forgetting the Portuguese community in Spain and Andorra, he announced that he hopes that <strong>\u201cin the near future Valencia will join\u201d the extensive network of consulates that Portugal maintains in Spain and Andorra.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With thanks to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and, especially, to <strong>King Felipe VI<\/strong>, as well as an express mention to the <strong>mayor of Badajoz,<\/strong> present at the reception, Joao Mira Gomes ended his speech with an emotional <strong>\u201cThank you, Spain!\u201d<\/strong>. However, as he said at the beginning, <strong>\u201cthis is not a farewell\u201d.<\/strong> And he was right because his last act as ambassador will be the Spanish-Portuguese business meeting to be held on the 19th in Vigo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_108406\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108406\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-108406 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thediplomatinspain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Varios-con-embajador-ok.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thediplomatinspain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Varios-con-embajador-ok.jpg 750w, https:\/\/thediplomatinspain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Varios-con-embajador-ok-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-108406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: The ambassadors of Bosnia, Sweden, Finland, Lithuania and North Macedonia, together 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size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thediplomatinspain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Eslovaquia-ok.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thediplomatinspain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Eslovaquia-ok.jpg 750w, https:\/\/thediplomatinspain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Eslovaquia-ok-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-108410\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Warm welcome to the Ambassador of Slovakia, Juraj Tomaga.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_108412\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108412\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-108412 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thediplomatinspain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Paises-Bajos-e-Italia-ok.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thediplomatinspain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Paises-Bajos-e-Italia-ok.jpg 750w, 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