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INTERVENCIÓ - IV Cumbre Mundial de Alcaldes
“La alianza de civilizaciones: el papel de las ciudades y los
gobiernos locales”, Pasqual Maragall
12/04/2007 | Istambul
ISTANBUL BARCELONA AND AFTER
13 APRIL 2007 (CORRECTED & REVISED)
1. MY LAST VISIT HERE WAS IN 2005 AS PT. OF
CATALONIA
PREVIOUS AS MAYOR, WHEN MAYOR ERDOGAN
AND I SISTERED BCN AND ISTANMBUL
2. NOTES OF THE BCN DECLARATION IN 2005
LESS CLIMATE THAN IN 1995
PRINCIPLE OF SUBSIDIARITY
CREATE BANK OF DEVELOPMNET EUROMED
IMOPORTANCE OF DESERTIFICACIONS (SEE
RECENT MAPS) AND DEPLETION OF FISH
RESERVESIT SEEMS THAT MANY OF OUR BEACHES
WLL BE GONE
I AM NOT A FANATIC OF PESSIMISM, SEEN THAT
ALL PREVOIUS PESSIMISMS HAVE FAILED) FIRST
OF ALL THAT OF ALFRED MARSHALL INVENTOR
OF ECONOMICS AND DIMISHUNG RETURNS (OF
COURSE HE DIDN’T TAKE ACCOUNT OF AMERICAN
UNLIMITED RESERVES OF LAND: KEYNES WAS
RIGHT)
NOT IN BCN CONF’CE BUT IN BCN FORUM OF
CULTURES (2004): DAVID CRYSTALL TALKED
�ABOUT DEPLETION OF THE NUMBER OF
LANGUAGES
THIS CANNOT BE PREVENTED BUT THE NUMBER
OF LANGUAGES LEARNT CAN THEORETICALLY BE
INCREASED
MIREIA BELIL PRODUCED A PERSUASIVE PICTURE
OF THE FORUM OF CULTURES AND ITS
CONTINUITY. I EXPECT ISTAMBUL WILL SOME
DAY BECOME AN OLYMPIC CITY AND A FORUM
CITY AS BARCELONA WAS: THIS STAMPED A
QUALITY MARK BESIDES BCN’S NAME
3. THESE EVENTS HAVE AND WILL HAVE PRODUCED
A RETURN OF THE MEDITERRANEAN BASSIN TO A
CERATAIN DEGREE OF CENTRALITY IN MODERN
WORLD, SOMETHING THAT WE LOST IN 1492
EUROPEANS “DISCOVERED” AMERICA
AND IT IS A GOOD SIGN THAT BOTH SPAIN AND
TURKEY AND PROBABLY PORTUGAL ARE
COMMANDING THE ALLIANCE OF CIVILISATIONS
EFFORT. THE MED BASSIN IS REALLY THE MID
TERM OF EASTERN AND WESTERN CULTURES
BOTH IN TIME AND SPACE
4. BACK TO PRESENT: SOME RELEVANT BUSSINES
AND INDUSTRIAL EVENTS HAPPEN IN THE AREA:
THE MERGERS BETWEEN AUTOPISTAS SPAIN AND
AUTOSTARDE ITALY, BET. ENEL AND ENDESA IN
POWER GENERATION, THE ACQUISITION OF
SCOTISH POWER BY IBERDROLA SPAIN ETC.
5. LAST WORD: ON SARAJEVO
TADIC AS A SYMBOL OF INT’L JUSTICE
�MLADIC AND KARADCIC AS A SYMBOL OF INT’L
FAILURE
MOSTAR: SOLANA SENT RICARD PEREZ CASADO
THERE AND HE GOT THE REBUILDING OF THEW
“MOST” OR BRIDGE UNITETING THE CROAT WITH
THE MUSLIM SIDE OF THE RIVER, DESTROYED BY
A BOMB. (“MULTI, MULTI, MULTI” … SAID AN
ANGRY BOSNIOCROAT OFFICIAL : “YOU ALWAYS
TALK MULTI, I’M FED UP WITH MULTI!”
THIS IS THE REAL QUESTION: THE “MULTI, MULTI”
FATIGUE AND THE COZINNESS AND WARM OF THE “US,
US, WE” REFUGE, LIKE IN KIDS: “ME, ME, ME” ALL THE
TIME, IN VIEW OF THE IMMENSITY OF SORROUNDING
SPACE AND THE TALLNESS OF TREES AND HOUSES.
IT IS NOT A COINCIDENCE THAT THERE WAS A MAN
FROM VALENCIA, RICARD PEREZ CASADO, THE ONE
WHO REMADE THE BRIDGE. VALENCIA, AS WELL AS
THE SOUTH OF CATALONIA, WAS NOT ALWAYS
CHRISTIAN BUT HAD ALMOST 8 CENTURIES OF
MUSLIM DOMINATION, 711 A.C. UNTIL 1492 POST.C.
THE BISHOP OF SEGORBE ONCE TOLD ME LESS THAN
20 YEARS AGO THAT HE HAD FOUND KORAN IN THE
SEGORBE MOUNTAINS OF VALENCIA AND THE JOYFUL
RIVALRY BETWWIN “MOROS Y CRISTIANOS” IS STILL
PRESENT IN VALENCIA AND ALICANTE’S FESTIVITIES.
EVEN IN CATALONIA, A PLACE LIKE MIRAVET (THE
NAME SAYS EVERYTHING) HAS A FESTIVITY CALLED
“THE SIEGE” WHICH CELLEBRATES THE RESISTENCE
OF A PLURAL COMMUNITY OF MOORS, CHRISTIANS
AND JEWS, PROTECTYED BY THE ORDER OF THE
TEMPLE (“TEMPLERS” IN CATALAN) AGAINST THE
ATTACK OF THE CHRISTIAN KING COMING FROM
BARCELONA.
�AND MANY TOWNS IN LLEIDA, WEST OF BARCELONA
AND ALSO OF LONG STANDING ARAB DOMINANCE,
HAVE NAMES LIKE VINAIXA (“BEN AÏSSA”) OR
VINAROÇ (“BEN AROCH) – TWO NAMES
CORRESPONDING TO TWO CONTEMPORARY MOROCAN
MINISTERS TO WHICH I DISCOVERED THEIR
GEOGRAPHICAL ORIGINS IN SPAIN.
TO END WITH A NOTE OF FUTURE:
IT IS FORTUNATE THAT PREMIER ERDOGAN,
WHATEVER HAPPENS TO HIS BRIGGING FOR
PRESIDENCE IN TURKEY, IS TRYING WITH JOSÉ LUÍS
RODRÍGUEZ ZAPATERO TO BRIDGE OR ALLY
CIVILIZATIONS.
EVEN MORE SO IF THE PRESIDENCE OF THIS BRIDGING
EFFORT (“BRIDGE” BEING PREFERRED TO “ALLIANCE”
AS A TITLE, SEEN THE MILITARY PARFUME OF THE
LAST NAME) IS ACCEPTED BY JORGE SAMPAIO,
FORMER Pt OF PORTUGAL.
�
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