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Portugal and Spain consider it a "priority" to move forward with high speed
The Foreign Ministers of Portugal and Spain today highlighted the "excellent relations" between the two countries and considered it a priority to move forward with the high-speed rail links between the two countries.
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País José Manuel Albares
"For Spain, improving the infrastructures that connect us with Portugal is a priority, and we have a special interest in the high-speed lines, both the connection between Madrid and Lisbon and with Vigo", said the Spanish minister, José Manuel Albares, who also highlighted the importance of completing two international road bridges already announced over the Sever and Guadiana rivers.
The Portuguese minister, Paulo Rangel, also said that Portugal and Spain have already started working on the next Iberian summit, on 23 October, which will clearly have on its agenda the "connections" in the areas of energy and railways, as well as some roads.
Albares and Rangel met today in Madrid and, according to the Portuguese minister, there was consensus between the two parties regarding the high-speed train connections and the "same level of priority" that should be given to the line between Madrid and Lisbon and the one that is planned to connect Lisbon, Porto and Vigo (northern Spain).
"We want two connections to Spain, at least, and therefore both are important to us", said Paulo Rangel, who stressed that Portugal also has "to safeguard" the high-speed connection between the country's two largest cities (Lisbon and Porto).
"We have to have both plans at the same time", he said.
Neither Rangel nor Albares committed to a timetable for the completion of the high-speed train connections between Portugal and Spain.
The two ministers highlighted the "excellent" bilateral relations between Portugal and Spain, enabled and consolidated by 50 years of democracy.
At a time when Spain has a left-wing government and Portugal a right-wing executive, Rangel recalled that different colours and parties have never disrupted Iberian relations in the last 40 years and said that this will continue to be the case.
"Spain is a priority for Portugal, not for a party or a government. It is a priority for the Portuguese State", he said.
Rangel and Albares stressed that Portugal has excellent bilateral relations, but also in the multilateral context, with emphasis on the common and joint positions in the European Union.
This was Paulo Rangel's first trip abroad for a formal bilateral meeting with a counterpart.
The Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, also made his first official trip to Spain, for a meeting last month with the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez.
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