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Geology has prevailed over geopolitics. Pedro Sánchez's trip to New York, where he planned to hold a series of meetings and participate in the

UN General Assembly

on Thursday

, has been put on hold due to the volcanic eruption on La Palma. This is the first time that the UN has held its

General Assembly since 2019

, since last year it was virtual due to Covid-19.

However, the meeting will take place with great security measures, to the point that in the room where the meeting is held there will hardly be any representatives of the delegations. Like seven weeks ago, when he made his last visit to the

United States

,

Sánchez is

not going to meet with any representative of the United States government. The president has been personally disappointed and irritated after Joe Biden gave him a 28-second walk in a hallway during the NATO summit in Brussels in June despite the efforts of the

Government

of Spain to achieve a conversation worthy of the name. between the two leaders.

Given the American indifference,

Moncloa

has tried to make this new visit by Sánchez to the US an opportunity both for Spain to gain international weight and to obtain investments for the recovery of the economy after the coronavirus crisis. That means a series of bilateral meetings, participation in different forums that are held taking advantage

of the UN Assembly

and which are usually attended by other world leaders and interviews in the media.

The one who does keep his agenda is the Minister of

Foreign Affairs

, José Manuel Albares, who arrives in

New York

on Monday

, on a visit whose program has not been made public. For now, the head of Spanish diplomacy will participate in a meeting at the Cervantes Institute in that city on the situation of the Spanish language in the world. Albares will travel to Washington on Thursday, where he is scheduled to meet with senior officials from Joe Biden's government.

The last time a Spanish Minister of

Foreign Affairs

was in the United States was 19 months ago, in February 2019, when the then head, Arancha González Laya, participated in a United Nations meeting, in a context marked by the crisis unleashed after the revelation, a month before, of the meeting at the Barajas airport between the then Minister of Transport, José Luis Ábalos, with the Vice President and Minister of the People's Power of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez.

What is not clear is that Albares will be received by his American counterpart, Secretary of State

Tony Blinken

, or the National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan. In principle, Friday is a terrible date in Washington, since it is when Biden celebrates what is going to be the most important meeting in foreign policy since he arrived at the White House, with the reception of the prime ministers of India,

Narendra Modi,

Japan,

Yoshihide Suga

, and Australia,

Scott Morrison

, the countries that make up the so-called Quad, a military alliance promoted by Washington to contain

China

in the Indian and Pacific.

This is the first time since the establishment of that group in 2007 that the top officials of the four countries have been cited.

As if the meeting was not relevant enough, the Australian

Morrison

arrives just a week after having signed another military alliance with the US and Great Britain, the AUKUS, also against China, which has caused as collateral damage the first withdrawal of a French ambassador of

Washington

in history.

In this context, it does not seem unreasonable to imagine that the importance of Albares's visit to Washington will be totally eclipsed.

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