Marcelo congratulates Guterres on receiving the Carlos V European Prize and will be present at the ceremony

The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, congratulated United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday on the presentation of the Carlos V European Prize and announced that he would attend the ceremony in May.

In a note published on the official website of the President of the Republic on the Internet, the head of state welcomes the awarding of António Guterres “the prestigious Carlos V Prize by the Foundation of the European and Iberoamerican Academy of Yuste, Spain.” .

According to the President of the Republic, this is “another recognition of his brilliant international career, in particular his tenure at the head of the United Nations.”

“President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa accepted an invitation to the awards ceremony along with King Felipe VI of Spain next May,” the same note reads.

The Carlos V European Prize Antonio Guterres was announced on Tuesday in Mérida, Spain, by the Director General of Foreign Affairs of the Junta of Extremadura and President of the Executive Committee of the European and Iberoamerican Academy Juste Foundation. Rosa Balas.

According to the website of the Juste Foundation, the Carlos V European Prize will be presented on May 9, Europe Day, in a ceremony presided over by the Spanish monarch in the church of the Royal Monastery of Yuste.

This award aims to recognize people, organisations, projects or initiatives that have contributed to the general knowledge and appreciation of cultural and historical values ​​in Europe or to the integration process of the European Union.

Jacques Delors, Wilfried Martens, Felipe Gonzalez, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jorge Sampaio, Helmut Kohl, Simone Weil, Javier Solana Madariaga, Durao Barroso, Sofia Corradi, Marcelino Oreja Aguirre, Antonio Tajani and Angela Merkel have previously been awarded the Carlos V Foundation Prize. European and Iberoamerican Academy of Yuste.