MEXICO CITY, Oct 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that he would meet his US counterpart Joe Biden in November, as they work together to tackle flows of migrants and drugs.
Lopez Obrador said that he would hold talks with Biden on the sidelines of meetings of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in San Francisco between November 11 and 17.
The Mexican leader had announced in September that he would skip the APEC summit because of a diplomatic rift with Peru, which is due to receive the rotating presidency.
Lopez Obrador said that he had changed his mind because he was interested in maintaining “a very good relationship with the US government.”
The about-face came after senior US and Mexican officials held security talks in Mexico City last week and vowed to redouble efforts to curb flows of irregular migrants and illegal drugs.
Lopez Obrador also announced Monday that Mexico would hold a summit on migration with other Latin American countries on October 22.
The leaders of Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and Venezuela were invited, he said.
The aim was to address the root cause of migration, “not only thinking about coercive measures, about checkpoints, about walls, about militarizing the borders,” Lopez Obrador said. — NNN-AGENCIES
