The Iranian ambassador solely greeted King Felipe VI Men in Iran can’t shake palms with girls in public Queen Letizia’s face was shocked
Hassan Ghashghavi, the Iranian ambassador, has drawn consideration on the conventional reception of the Diplomatic Corps by the King and Queen of Spain on account of his perspective in direction of Queen Letizia.
During the standard greeting protocol for the monarchs, Ghashghavi shook palms with King Felipe VI, however averted doing so with Queen Letizia, solely greeting her from afar. The expression on the queen’s face mirrored shock on the conduct of the Iranian ambassador.
This has been so due to cultural norms established because the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, the place males aren’t allowed to shake palms with girls in public. Ghashghavi is what she has finished by not greeting the queen.
At the Royal Palace, the kings individually acquired some 120 ambassadors and embassy secretaries, in addition to senior officers from the 41 worldwide organizations with a presence or workplace in Spain, in a ceremony that was additionally attended by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares.
The King claims Spain’s “excellent response” in its assist for Ukraine
King Felipe VI has vindicated earlier than the ambassadors accredited in Madrid the assist that Spain has given Ukraine each on the navy and humanitarian ranges because the Russian invasion occurred eleven months in the past, within the midst of a debate on the eventual cargo of tankers fight ‘Leopard’.
“Spain has proven its assist for Ukraine from the start, within the bilateral and multilateral sphere, each with the availability of navy gear and the mandatory humanitarian materials within the face of the indiscriminate Russian assaults on civil infrastructures”, the monarch highlighted in his speech through the reception to the Diplomatic Corps accredited in Spain held on the Royal Palace.
In Don Felipe’s opinion, “the response has been very excellent, additionally demonstrating the unity of the companions and allies within the EU and NATO”, whose summit in Madrid final June “launched a unprecedented message of cohesion”.
The King additionally highlighted earlier than the ambassadors, amongst whom was the one from Ukraine, that “the response of the worldwide group has been agency and forceful” within the face of this “flagrant violation of probably the most elementary norms and rules of International Law and the UN Charter.
“It is crucial that the worldwide group”, Felipe VI informed the ambassadors, “proceed working in direction of a peaceable worldwide order, wherein justice and regulation prevail, and never the imposition by pressure of arms or by the specter of its use”.