MADRID-- South Korean President Moon Jae-in touched down in Spain on Tuesday for a state visit, the last leg of his weeklong Europe tour.

He is the first South Korean leader to make a state visit here in 14 years and also the first state guest greeted by Spain since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

During his three-day stay in Madrid and Barcelona, Moon is scheduled to hold summit talks with Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, meet with King Felipe VI and attend business-related events.

In the summit, the two sides plan to upgrade their seven-decade-long friendly cooperative ties by another notch, according to Cheong Wa Dae.

Moon will especially have discussions on deepening and diversifying bilateral economic partnerships, it added.

He attended a G-7 summit in Britain followed by a three-day state visit to Austria as part of his three-nation trip to Europe. It marks the resumption of his face-to-face summit diplomacy with European countries that was suspended due to the pandemic.

Source: Yonhap News Agency