The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations is an initiative that attempts to "galvanize international action against extremism" through the forging of international, intercultural and interreligious
Leaders speaking at the 2010 Forum
Jorge Sampaio, the UN High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations, speaking at the 2009 Istanbul Forum
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (left), Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon (centre), and Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (right)
Miguel Ángel Moratinos
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Miguel Ángel Moratinos Cuyaubé is a Spanish diplomat and politician, a member of the Socialist Workers' Party and was a member of Congress from 2004 to 2011, where he represented Córdoba. From 2004 to
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…assumed the post of High Representative, succeeding President Sampaio in the position. In January 2019, Secretary-General António Guterres appointed Miguel Ángel Moratinos, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain, as High Representative. In 2023, Nihal Saad, former TV journalist from Egypt, assumed the role of Director…
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Miguel Ángel Moratinos accompanying His Majesty King Juan Carlos I in his 2009 state visit to Estonia, being greeted by the prime minister of Estonia Andrus Ansip.
Moratinos together with Turkish and Brazilian foreign ministers Davutoğlu and Amorim