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Mexican President receives U.S. delegation for security dialogue

Mexican President receives U.S. delegation for security dialogue
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October 6 |

The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, received this Thursday the US delegation headed by the Secretary of the State Department, Antony Blinken, after starting the High Level Security Dialogue.

According to local media, the president announced that he will receive the delegation from Washington shortly after 09H00 (local time), which will address issues such as migration, drug trafficking, trade development and the recent order to reinforce the border wall.

“A delegation is coming, a group of US officials, headed by the secretary of state, we start at 09:00 It’s going to be a coffee with bread,” said Lopez Obrador at the end of his usual morning conference.

“We have an agenda all day long. Public servants from the U.S. and Mexican governments will be working. There will be a press conference at the end of all these meetings,” said the head of state.

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According to local sources, after the private meeting with the Mexican president, the US officials will meet with the Mexican security cabinet to advance with the work of the meeting.

During his morning speech, López Obrador also referred to the order given by his U.S. counterpart, Joe Biden, to reinforce the border wall, which he considered to be “a step backwards because it does not solve the problem”.

In this sense, the Mexican president assured that the head of the White House is being pressured by the Republican Party because, he pointed out, the order is “contrary to what President Biden has been saying. He is so far the only president who has not built a wall”.

The U.S. delegation is also composed of the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas; the Attorney General, Merrick Garland; the White House Security Advisor, Liz Sherwood-Randall; and the State Department’s Latin America representative, Brian Nichols.

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