Mexico: Blinken and Mexico's Foreign Sec Ebrard praise "new chapter" in Mexico-US relations

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Migration and security were the main themes on the agenda during US Foreign Secretary Antony Blinken’s visit to Mexico City to meet with his Mexican counterpart Marcelo Ebrard, with the top diplomats holding a press conference after the meeting in Mexico City, on Friday.

Along with this the two announced a new approach to the relations between the nations, saying that the Merida Initiative agreement was being replaced with a more comprehensive Bicentennial Understanding.

Mexico reportedly recorded more than 36,500 assassinations last year, averaging 100 per day.

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SOT, Marcelo Ebrard, Mexican Foreign Minister (Spanish): “Thank you. We are here today wrapping up a process that has gone on for several months and that allows us to first affirm that we are leaving the Merida Initiative behind, and that starting today, we start with the Bicentennial Agreement. Why bicentennial? Because we will be celebrating 200 years of relations between Mexico and the United States. As you know, they were the first country that recognised us, so that is why we have given it this name.”

SOT, Marcelo Ebrard, Mexican Foreign Minister (Spanish): “It is based on the incorporation of the visions of President Biden as well as President Lopez Obrador’s and having a more comprehensive approach regarding security, health, and safe communities.”

SOT, Marcelo Ebrard, Mexican Foreign Minister (Spanish): “We have found from the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and from the Secretary on all representatives of the US Government that we have a relation in which Mexico’s priorities are the same – have the same level of priority as the ones from the United States. Today is something – this is something that we can say, something that we did not have before. For Mexico, we must prioritise violence, homicides, providing opportunity for development for young people. We are addressing the root causes of all of the issues that we are facing, and these priorities have been taken into account.”

SOT, Marcelo Ebrard, Mexican Foreign Minister (Spanish): “You will see that there are three broad objectives to protect our people, to prevent crime in the border region, to dismantle criminal organisations, to create immediate memorandums, MOUs to reduce addiction to drugs and the harm related to them. This is the first time that we do something like this in our history. An MOU to launch the program for control for control of port containers, a binational working group on chemical precursors, joint work in terms of supporting what Mexico is doing in forensics to locate people who have disappeared.”

SOT, Antony Blinken, US Secretary of State: “The relationship between our governments is wide-ranging and complex. Every single day, we are working together on an incredibly broad range of issues, from Congress to climate, from public health to public education, tourism, to regional diplomacy; maintaining that relationship, and strengthening it demands constant, candid dialogue at every level. It requires seizing opportunities and adapting to new challenges, and that’s exactly what we did today with high-level dialogue.”

SOT, Antony Blinken, US Secretary of State: “We have a shared responsibility, as neighbors and as partners, to improve security for the people of our nations. That is what it boils down to. And it marks the beginning of a new chapter in Mexico-U.S. security cooperation, one that will see us working as equal partners in defining and tackling shared priorities, one that seeks to address the root causes of the security challenges that we face, including inequity, corruption, impunity, and one that does that not only by modernising law enforcement, but also strengthening public health, the rule of law, and broader-based economic opportunity.”

SOT, Antony Blinken, US Secretary of State: “We know that reducing arms trafficking is a priority for Mexico, as many of the illicit weapons in this country come from the United States. And we’re committed to deepening our collaboration on arms tracing, on investigations, on prosecutions to disrupt the supply. We’re also collaborating on fighting human smuggling and trafficking organisations as well as drug trafficking organisations, which perpetuate cycles of violence and human suffering.”

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