The Mexican Foreign Ministry described as “positive” the meeting held on Wednesday by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and representatives of the United States government about the preparations of the Summit of the Americas, to be held next June in Los Angeles.
“The dialogue is very good and I think the meeting was positive,” Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said shortly after leaving the meeting in the afternoon in a video posted on Twitter.
In the meeting with the Mexican president were the US ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, and Christopher Dodd, special adviser to President Joe Biden for the summit, who did so virtually, for having contracted COVID-19.
President López Obrador recently showed his protest for the controversial indications of Washington that it will leave the representations of Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba out of the forum, because “they do not respect the Democratic Charter of the Americas,” according to the assistant secretary of the Department of State for the Western Hemisphere, Brian Nichols.
For the Mexican Foreign Secretary, Roberto Velazco, said that the meeting was in “good spirits.”
Obrador, after his protest, denied on Tuesday that this was a break with the United States. “You shouldn’t think that if we don’t coincide in this case at the summit, there will be a rupture, by no means,” he declared.
“I would say that it was a very frank, very interesting conversation,” added Foreign Minister Ebrard, who also pointed out that the fundamental issues were the meaning of the important event for the entire continent, as well as labor mobility and economic recovery, among others.
This Wednesday the White House reported that it has not finished drawing up the list of guests for the summit, according to the new spokeswoman, Karine Jean-Pierre, when asked by reporters at the press conference.
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