President Jammeh Receives Spanish Foreign Minister
Jul 25, 2008, 8:00 AM
According to news monitored on
Gambia Radio and Television Services yesterday, the Spanish Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, Angel Lossada Quevedo, yesterday paid a courtesy call on
President Alhaji Yahya Jammeh at State House.
Speaking to
reporters after his audience with the Gambian leader, Mr. Quevedo said their
discussions centred on bilateral and regional projects identified by the
governments of the Gambia
and Spain.
These, he said, included co-operation in the area of job creation for the
youths as well as ways and means of addressing illegal migration. The Spanish
envoy said that he also discussed with President Jammeh about the
implementation of the framework of co-operation signed by the two countries and
reaffirmed their commitment to strengthen the already
