Spain, US to reinforce anti-terror cooperation

The Spanish government vowed on Friday that it will further cooperate with the United States against terrorism despite the difference of viewpoints between the two governments.

Robert Mueller, director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), will visit Madrid next Tuesday and he will hold talks with Spanish Interior Minister Jose Antonio Alonso.

The two sides will discuss measures to combat the financing of terror groups and the traffic of explosives, according the Interior Ministry.

They will also discuss ways of reinforcing security cooperation "at a political and operative level," and boosting information exchanges, said the ministry, adding the two countries may set up a state-security body.

Relations between Spain and the US cooled down for the withdrawal of Spanish troops from Iraq last year.

Source: Xinhua