This paper researches how and why the decision to withdraw Spanish troops from Iraq between March and April 2004 was taken. The new Spanish president, José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero, took this decision in the period between the day after his electoral victory, on 14 March, and the day that his government took office, on 18 April. The decision was made possible by the previous work of informal diplomacy carried out by Zapatero’s future minister of defence, José Bono, and his future minister of foreign affairs, Miguel Ángel Moratinos, who were holding discreet contacts with several international leaders of the military coalition present at the time in Iraq. This fact had a strong impact on the prestige of the new government in the eyes of Spanish public opinion and on the strengthening of alliances with European countries opposed to the invasion. On the contrary, it brought Spain to have one of the worst relations periods of all times with the US administration.

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从伊拉克撤军后西班牙的国际地位如何提高

本文研究了西班牙在 2004 年 3 月至 4 月期间做出从伊拉克撤军的决定的方式和原因。西班牙新任总统何塞·路易斯·罗德里格斯·萨帕特罗在 3 月 14 日选举胜利后的第二天和 4 月 18 日政府上任之日之间做出了这一决定。萨帕特罗未来的国防部长若泽·博诺和他未来的外交部长米格尔·安赫尔·莫拉蒂诺斯之前开展的非正式外交工作使这一决定成为可能，他们与在场的军事联盟的几位国际领导人进行了谨慎的接触当时在伊拉克。这一事实对新政府在西班牙舆论眼中的威望以及加强与反对入侵的欧洲国家的联盟产生了强烈影响。