José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero Carme Chacon made the announcement saying, "The mission has been completed and it is time to return home." Asked if the United States shared that assessment, Wood said, "Not at all." Later on, Vice President Joe Biden stated that the American relationship with Spain goes beyond "whatever disagreement we may have over Kosovo". Zapatero's predecessor, José María Aznar, defended a strong Atlanticist policy. Zapatero has downplayed that policy in favour of a pan-European one. He has also sponsored the idea of an Alliance of Civilizations which is co-sponsored by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. In the writing of what
Jose Coye Jose Coye Jose Coye (born 1942) is a Belizean politician and a member of the People's United Party (PUP). He trained as a Chartered Accountant and worked as a customs officer before going into politics. Coye was mayor of Belize City from 1995 until 1998, and was a founding member of the Belize Mayors Association. He was elected to the Belize House of Representatives in 1998 from the Caribbean Shores constituency of Belize District, defeating incumbent Prime Minister Manuel Esquivel. In 2004, Coye was among seven ministers who resigned from Prime Minister Said Musa's cabinet over a funding dispute involving