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President of Mexico announces meeting with the president of Guatemala for the month of May
Among some of the central topics of the binational meeting are topics such as security and organized crime.
The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, hopes that the meeting will take place at the end of May. (Free Press Photo: EFE/ Isaac Esquivel)
The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, announced this Friday a “very important” meeting with his Guatemalan counterpart, Bernardo Arévalo, at the end of May to address multiple issues, such as security and crime on the border stretch.
This was explained in his daily press conference, where he detailed that, “possibly”, the meeting will be on the border between Mexico and Guatemala.
“We have a meeting pending. It is very likely that we will meet with President Arévalo in May,” López Obrador recalled.
It will be a “very important bilateral meeting” and, when asked by journalists, he trusted that “everything” will be discussed, including organized crime and the situation of violence on the border. Even so, he clarified that the preparation and implementation of the event “is still in process.”
This announcement comes two days following the Mexican and Guatemalan Executives agreed to strengthen the processes of protection, care and return of migrant girls, boys and adolescents, an agreement sealed during the visit of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala, Carlos Ramiro Martínez.
In the meeting with the Foreign Minister of Mexico, Alicia Bárcena, both States agreed to a “new stage” of rapprochement in the bilateral relationship, “as a result of the synchronicity of ideas between the presidents,” according to a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
On the other hand, López Obrador praised Arévalo, whom he considered “intelligent, honest and with a lot of love for the people,” and assured that his arrival to power “was the best thing that might happen to Guatemala.”
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