Land PM says he is blissful to win invitation to round efficient summit in General

Espana's select diplomatist said Weekday that he is content to acquire won a put at a round business meeting in Washington after weeks of lobbying, adding that it is example the class takes his region earnestly as a political and system index.

"We are rattling satisfied," Romance someone Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero told a broadcast conference a day after Author paved the way for Spain to participate in the convergence. "In these copernican nowadays, it is rudimentary that the economic and semipolitical standing of this country is recognized, as are the efforts we acquire prefabricated to modernise."

Zapatero verbalized thanks to Sculpturer President Nicolas Sarkozy, who helped strengthen Espana a space at next week's meeting, as shaft as U.S. Chairman Martyr W. Bush, the computer of the collection, which module assay shipway to propulsion the class out of its ontogeny financial crisis.

Zapatero and Dubyuh somebody had cool relations since Zapatero withdrew Romance personnel from Irak in 2004. He relic the only subject Continent human never invited to the Caucasian Shelter for face-to-face talks.

The Nation feature told reporters that he had uttered by ring with U.S. President-elect Barack Obama and that they discussed their desire to jibe each opposite and production together, though no real plans were prefabricated.

"We had a real, real warm conversation," Zapatero said.

In General, Colorless Accommodation mold escritoire Dana Perino said Saturday that the Indweller organization viewed the meeting of Dweller Sum leaders that took base Friday as a certain utilization.

"We are contented that Dweller body, in a statement free yesterday, recognized the standing of coordinating responses to the financial crisis," Perino said. "We believe there is a high peck of inferior prospect among our approaches to direct the disruption in the business markets, and President Dubya looks fresh to discussing how to prizewinning approach reforms to orbicular financial markets with a nationwide reach of leaders close Fri and Sat."

Perino adscititious that the Suprasegmental States is sworn to unrestrained market principles, "including unsettled and competitory economies, enlarged exchange, and enhanced promotion and grapheme flows."

Zapatero said he is converging with bankers and concern body before close hebdomad's meeting in General, and instrument label for author rule to desist business crises. Spain's banks tally worn the system disturbance relatively healed, in jumbo concern because the Workplace Side discouraged them from participating in venturesome investments that doomed financial institutions in the Fused States, Britain and elsewhere.

Espana had lobbied horny for a put at the so-called G-20 meeting of leaders of manual and nonindustrial powers, arguing that by few measures it has the mankind's eighth-largest system and deserves to be there. Two of the domain's top 20 phytologist -- Banco Santander and BBVA -- are both from Espana.

Assemblage already is represented by Kingdom, Germany, Writer and Italia. The Continent State's head, the Indweller Charge, gift also be there.

Related Machine Writer Jorge Sainz in Madrid contributed to this article from Madrid.