King Juan Carlos loses "a brother and friend", the emir of Kuwait

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"A brother and a friend."

This is how Juan Carlos I (82) has described

Sheikh Sabah al Ahmed al Jaber al Sabah, who died this Tuesday at the age of 91.

The

in regional conflicts, after being transferred on a medicalized plane last July to the United States, ends

forged on official and personal trips between Spain and Kuwait.

Sabah, who was Kuwait's Minister of Foreign Affairs for more than four decades before his accession to the throne in 2006, established the first contacts with today's King Emeritus

In April 1964, Spain opened an embassy in Kuwait and seven Years later, in the last throes of the Franco dictatorship, this

inaugurated its diplomatic legation in Madrid.

Since then, bilateral, diplomatic and commercial relations have been closely linked to the

In the spring of 2014, a few months before his abdication, Juan Carlos I made

accompanied by ministers and businessmen, as part of a regional tour that also made a stopover in the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Qatar

Sabah and Juan Carlos I

then celebrated half a century of diplomatic relations, full of encounters.

The King Emeritus visited Kuwait for the first time

and has not stopped doing so since then to attend, for example, the fifth anniversary of the accession to the throne of his "friend" Sabah.

In recognition of their friendship, Felipe VI's father

the Order of Mubarak the Great

, the distinction that the Kuwaiti court has awarded to heads of state such as Mohamed VI, Bill Clinton and Bashar Asad.

Sabah also enjoyed the

Another meeting of the Spanish monarch and the Kuwaiti emir, in 2014.EFE

At the end of the past decade there were periods of frantic encounters between the two.

Between 2007 and 2011 Juan Carlos I visited Kuwait up to five times.

In August 2008

and at the end of 2011, with the region on fire from the riots, Juan Carlos I traveled to the country

on a journey outside the public eye.

From its proximity to the monarchies of the Persian Gulf, which managed to emerge unscathed from the Arab Spring in 2011 and contributed to frustrating any democratic transition in the region, today comes

faced by Juan Carlos I, whose trade relations in the peninsula Arabica is

Since last August, he has been hosted in Abu Dhabi, one of the seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates.

The extreme discretion of the place has avoided, to date, knowing details of your stay.

Kuwait has not been left out of that public scrutiny.

Earlier this year, the British newspaper

revealed that in 2008 Juan Carlos

called Lucum whose Swiss bank account received the alleged donation of 65 million euros from the then Saudi King Abdelaziz al Saud.

In addition to this transfer and the subsequent one made by the Bahrain royal family,

(about 4.3 million euros) that Corinna Larsen received from the State of Kuwait days after the King Emeritus left. meet with the emir.

It also examines the possibility that Corinna would later deliver the same amount to Juan Carlos to

she had made for the purchase and renovation of a home.

In a rapid transition, Nawaf al Sabah, 83 years old and so far the oldest successor on the planet,

before Parliament on

, after completing the procedure of being ratified as heir by the Government.

The body of the emir, who died at the Mayo Clinic hospital in Minnesota, arrives in the country this Wednesday.

Due to the restrictions imposed by Covid-19,

attended exclusively by the emir's family.

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