Spain thanks RP for declaring June 30 as PH-Spanish Friendship Day 07/04/2011

Spain thanks RP for declaring June 30 as PH-Spanish Friendship Day

07/04/2011
In a momentous gesture, Spain’s Congreso de Diputados formally expressed the country’s gratitude toward the Philippines for declaring the Philippine-Spanish Friendship Day on June 30 of every year in commemoration of the historic Siege of Baler.

Spain’s unprecedented move was made in response to an equally unprecedented initiative by the Philippines to pass the Philippine-Spanish Friendship Day Act (Republic Act 9187) in 2003, becoming the only former colony to proclaim its friendship by law..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20110704nat7.html