The President of the Junta, Juanma Moreno, has attended in Córdoba the awards ceremony of the Mediterranean Awards, where he stated that Andalusia is a Mediterranean region of reference with a more decisive role in the world, co-chairing the Committee of the Regions, which imposes a leadership attitude that this community increasingly asserts the voice of the South, which is also the voice of the Mediterranean, and, as he said, «urges us to seek partnership with other regions to defend common interests.»
Moreno has pointed out that the Andalusian government created these awards in 2021 with the aim of bringing all its neighbors closer so that the Mediterranean becomes more and more a sea of peace, a sea of understanding, and a useful space for real collaboration.
Thus, he affirmed that this event focuses on individuals and organizations that contribute, in a distinguished and exemplary manner, to promoting that desire, fostering among all of us the Mediterranean identity and its values of concord, promoting its sustainable development, and making that dialogue of everyone with everyone, based on what unites us, which is much stronger and more powerful than what separates us, a reality.
The Andalusian President has congratulated all the awardees, among whom are the Associazione Culturale Raizes from Italy, Khaos Research Group from the University of Malaga, the SLEC Project that unites France and Morocco in an ecological response to energy and environmental challenges, Nermín El Bahtiti, Burj Al-Luqluq Social Center Society, and the Spanish social start-up Gravity Wave.
«These Awards are a recognition and an invitation to think, imagine, and build the future we want.»
Moreno has stated that the world is going through turbulent times, just like the Mediterranean, from the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians to the situation in Syria and Libya, through climate change and migration, and has urged to live through these times without fear and with hope. «We have to overcome obstacles without giving up, as some of the awardees have had to do to be here tonight, and do it because peace is always right, because the values of civilization and the defense of human rights and freedoms are always right, and because we must stand on the side of reason and not of violence, anger, and fear. Always from concord. That concord is the hallmark that Andalusia puts in everything it does.»
The President of the Junta, Juanma Moreno, along with the rest of the authorities, at the awards ceremony in Córdoba for the II Mediterranean Awards.
The event was attended by the Councilor of Culture and Sports, Patricia del Pozo; the Councilor of Tourism and External Andalusia, Arturo Bernal; the Councilor of Justice, Local Administration, and Public Function, José Antonio Nieto; the President of the Parliament, Jesús Aguirre, and the Mayor of Córdoba, José María Bellido.