MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s president is poised to hold a first conference with his U.S. equivalent, Donald Trump, next week after the Mexican government stated on Tuesday his delegation had received an invitation to Washington for July 8-9.
Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during a press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico June 29,2020 Mexico’s Presidency/Handout through REUTERS/Files
Lopez Obrador, a combative leftist, has not left his nation because taking workplace in December 2018, and picking to pay his very first foreign visit to Trump is politically risky given the unpopularity of the U.S. president in Mexico.
Two Mexican officials had informed Reuters that the check out was most likely to take place on July 8-9 and Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard signaled those would be the dates.
” I can validate that we have gotten an invitation from the U.S. federal government for a main work see on July 8 and 9,” Ebrard said on Twitter, including that the government would provide more info about the upcoming visit on Wednesday.
Ebrard, Mexican Economy Minister Graciela Marquez and governmental Chief-of-Staff Alfonso Romo are due to accompany Lopez Obrador on the journey to Washington.
Ebrard did not say whether the invitation had actually been accepted, but as it was Lopez Obrador who in April initially drifted the concept of meeting Trump, that appears very likely.
Lopez Obrador had recommended the Trump talks would be early in July, however on Monday he said it would not be this week.
The Mexican president says the Trump conference is meant to commemorate the July 1 start of the United States-Mexico-Canada Contract (USMCA), a trade deal that is replacing the 26- year-old North American Free Trade Arrangement (NAFTA).
His plan to meet Trump has stirred criticism from both opposition ranks and some of his own supporters.
Trump has actually been widely done not like in Mexico since he described Mexican migrants as rapists and drug runners in his 2015-16 election campaign and for promising to make Mexico pay for his organized border wall.
Lopez Obrador has actually publicly prompted Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to participate in the conference, however Canada’s government has offered no sign yet that he will participate in.
A Canadian federal government source said any invitation to participate in would be examined from a health perspective.
Under federal health rules, Trudeau deals with 14 days in quarantine upon returning to Canada if he leaves the nation.
Reporting by Dave Graham, Frank Jack Daniel and Steve Scherer; modifying by Grant McCool and Gerry Doyle
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