Legal abortion: Pedro Sánchez gave as an example the …

The President of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, highlighted the law of voluntary termination of pregnancy (IVE) sanctioned in Argentina as “an example of sexual and reproductive rights”. He did so during his speech to members of the Iberian diplomatic corps at the opening of the 2021 Ambassadors Conference.

Sánchez has taken up a tradition of Spanish foreign policy: meetings with ambassadors and diplomats. As he said, since 2008 there has been no reunion like the one he played on Monday that he sought to mark the axes of your policy for this year as part of a harsher second wave caused by Covid-19.

Although the main issues have been the economy and health in the context of the pandemic, the Spanish president has defined himself in favor of changes in different areas, referring fundamentally to women. It was then that he underlined the law that President Alberto Fernández has just promulgated.

“I also want to mention another factor of change in our time, and that is in that they embody the voice of women in the world., girls calling for democracy, racial equality in the United States, sexual and reproductive rights in Latin America, as we saw recently in Argentina, or the climate agenda in Madrid or in cities like Barcelona in our country, sure that Spanish foreign action can and must be more equal. I think it is also an objective of Spanish foreign action ”.

The Spanish leader also asked to work on milestones “such as the Women, Girls and Covid-19 resolution, which was adopted by consensus at the III Committee of the United Nations General Assembly last October”.

The speech was delivered to Ambassadors, Ambassadors and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and the European Union, Arancha González Laya, appointed to this post on January 13, 2020, that is to say barely a year ago.

The issue of gender was present throughout his speech, which was intended, according to Sánchez, “above all at 51% of the population, but basically for the whole, the vast majority of Spanish society is that our country has a huge potential linked to gender equality ”. He simply called for a “definitive leap in gender equality”.

“We have been doing this for many years in our country, I believe that we can increase our potential growth from an economic point of view and, of course, also give this inclusive perspective to our economic development,” Sánchez said of the gender equality. axes “which explain the task to be accomplished”.