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Mexican President to meet with Chinese and U.S. leaders

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November 15 |

Mexico’s Foreign Minister, Alicia Bárcena, informed this Tuesday that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will meet this week with the presidents of China, Xi Jinping, and the United States, Joe Biden.

During the press conference that López Obrador holds daily, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs announced that the meetings will take place within the framework of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum, to be held this week in the US city of San Francisco, California (west).

Bárcena said that AMLO will hold a meeting with Xi Jinping on Thursday 16, in which they plan to discuss exports and imports of products, a China-Mexico economic alliance, the support offered by the Asian nation for Acapulco, as well as drug trafficking (fentanyl).

The following day will be the meeting between the Mexican President and the U.S. President, the fourth bilateral meeting they will hold, after the meetings held during 2021 and 2022 in the U.S. capital, Washington, in January of this year in Mexico City.

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López Obrador previously informed that he intends to present Biden with the proposal reached after the Palenque Summit, held last October 22 in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, which addressed the migration issue with the participation of heads of state, heads of government and high-level representatives from Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Panama and Venezuela.

The dignitaries attending Chiapas spoke out against the application of unilateral restrictive measures, the elimination of the US economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba and the cessation of the pressure measures that the White House has imposed on Venezuela.

AMLO has stressed the importance of the US collaborating in implementing development projects that generate more jobs and welfare in Latin American countries, so that their populations are not forced to leave their roots behind and emigrate for economic reasons.

In addition, he plans to review with Biden the bilateral economic relationship, border infrastructure, chemical drugs and attention to Mexican migrants in the U.S. According to his agenda, López Obrador will also hold a bilateral meeting with the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau.

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Related Topics:Manuel López Obrador Mexico

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The Mexican official said Monday on social media that he attended the meeting in representation of the Mexican government’s Security Cabinet.

“In Washington, D.C., I represented the Security Cabinet to hold talks with DEA Director Terrance Cole on the importance of strengthening bilateral cooperation to combat drug trafficking, curb the flow of weapons into our country, and reduce violence in Mexico through significant arrests,” García Harfuch wrote.

He added that, following instructions from Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, the government will continue strengthening international cooperation on security matters.

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