After meeting with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the Mexican ambassador to Spain, Quirino Ordaz Coppel (PRI), stated that in the coming days will travel to Madridwith the instruction of promote investment and the unity of both peoples.
After the president stated that the relationship between Spain and Mexico would have a break due to the abuses committed by Spanish companies during the neoliberal period, this Tuesday followingnoon he held a meeting of more than two hours at the National Palace with Ordaz Coppel.
In an interview, the former governor of Sinaloa dismissed the threat of the PRI to disaffiliate him for accepting the position of ambassador.
On his Twitter account, the ambassador shared a photograph with López Obrador and the following message: “Today I was received by the President @lopezobrador_. He asked me to work hard to strengthen investment promotion and unity between the 2 peoples”
Today I was received by the President @lopezobrador_. He asked me to work hard to strengthen investment promotion and unity between the 2 peoples ???????????????????? pic.twitter.com/Z37iRRlwEe
– Quirino Ordaz (@QuirinoOC) March 23, 2022
-What is the president’s instruction, put relations in play or in mode break time?, he was questioned.
-A lot of work on Unit, between the Spanish people and the people of Mexico.
-You have an important, difficult mission, how would you rate it?
-It seems to me that it is a good opportunity, to strengthen, to work very hard, to promote a lot of investment, to continue strengthening the cultural relationshipit is really a historical bond that we have very great, very extensive with Spain, more than 500 years and I think we have to continue looking for those… working very hand in hand, he replied.
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The former governor of Sinaloa said that in the coming days will travel to Madrid.
-When are you leaving? This week?, he was asked.
-In the next days… I am going to have some meetings with some secretaries, following that I am going, he said.
-Hey, and regarding your disaffiliation from the PRI, what have they told you?
-That’s… I’m ambassador, I represent the Mexican State, he said smiling.
➡️ #At the moment | Quirino Ordaz, Ambassador of Mexico in #Spainis a few days away from traveling to #Madrid to start the diplomatic mission.
Its objective: to strengthen the relationship between both nations.
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– Eleven News (@OnceNoticiasTV) March 23, 2022
On March 8, the Senate of the Republic ratified Quirino Ordaz Coppel (PRI) as Mexico’s ambassador to Spain, despite the opposition of some PRI.
A day later, President López Obrador emphasized that the pause in relations with Spain, although the Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of Spain, José Manuel Albares Bueno, was received.
He said that the approach of the pause for the abuses committed by Spanish companies and that “they have not acted decently”.
That day, he commented that they will seek to completely restore relations between Mexico and Spain when it is understood that a new stage while clarifying that there is no “phobia of the Spanish people.”
