NEW ALVARO DE MENDANA MONUMENT UNVEILED IN HONIARA

“I’m deeply moved really because this is the end of my dream, a dream that I cherish when I present the credentials only two years ago in the Solomon Islands and I discovered that there were so many people called Alvaro and they didn’t know why, and I discovered that the main street is called Mendana and we have a hotel called Mendana, and I said to myself for the same reason we’ve done in Vanuatu not too long ago to inaugurate a monument for that navigator named Quiros, who discovered four centuries ago Vanuatu, we have to do the same thing in the Solomon Islands.”

He adds, with the monument, Spain, the Solomon Islands and Europe have made an important step forward.