Mexico City.- President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced that Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard will visit Washington on Monday after a “cordial conversation” by telephone with the head of the White House, Joe Biden.
“We had a cordial conversation with President Biden. We discussed issues of interest in the bilateral relationship and we agreed that Secretary Marcelo Ebrard will visit Washington on Monday to advance on issues of cooperation for development and the Summit of the Americas,” the president reported in a brief message on Twitter, who this Friday is touring the southeastern state of Quintana Roo.
The message is accompanied by a photograph of López Obrador and Ebrard in front of some telephones and two flags, from Mexico and the United States, while they held the telephone meeting with Biden.
In a conversation between Presidents López Obrador and Biden, two topics: address the causes of migration with much greater investment in Central America and prepare for the Summit of the Americas, in which all countries must be present without exception. Monday we start visits and negotiation.
– Marcelo Ebrard C. (@m_ebrard) April 29, 2022
Biden and López Obrador had a “constructive” conversation focused mainly on migration, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki assured in turn from Washington.
The virtual meeting between Biden and López Obrador lasted 52 minutes and “most of the conversation was about migration.”
Specifically on how to coordinate a strategy to “reduce migration to the common border”, Psaki stressed in his daily press conference, shortly after the call ended.
“The tone of the call was very constructive,” added the spokeswoman, who ruled out any type of “threat” towards the Mexican president.
The meeting was especially important due to the upcoming lifting of Title 42, a measure protected by the pandemic imposed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2020, during the term of then-president, Donald Trump, and which has continued under Biden.
We had a cordial conversation with President Biden. We discussed issues of interest in the bilateral relationship and agreed that Secretary Marcelo Ebrard will visit Washington on Monday to advance on issues of cooperation for development and the Summit of the Americas. pic.twitter.com/IIWeLii7S7
– Andrés Manuel (@lopezobrador_) April 29, 2022
In addition, it occurred while the migratory wave persists in the region.
Mexico deported more than 114,000 foreigners in 2021, according to data from the Migration Policy Unit of the country’s Ministry of the Interior.
And from January 1 to April 13 of this year, Mexican authorities intercepted 115,379 migrants, of which 15 percent were minors, mainly from Central American nations.
Biden and López Obrador also commented at this meeting on the next Summit of the Americas, which will take place at the beginning of June in Los Angeles (California) and where the migration issue will be one of the main axes.
The feminist diplomacy of Mexico pic.twitter.com/h6Md9nKvsT
– Marcelo Ebrard C. (@m_ebrard) April 29, 2022
On Wednesday, in an act that was interpreted as a prelude to the meeting between the leaders, high-ranking officials from the Governments of Mexico and the United States boasted achievements in just three months under the new Bicentennial Security Understanding, such as the capture of capos, the seizure of synthetic drugs and the dismantling of trafficking networks.
In addition, that same day at night, López Obrador met with businessmen from the United States who are part of the Council of the Americas, with whom he discussed, among other issues, foreign investment in the country.
Source: López Dóriga Digital
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