The head of the White House indicated that the leaders of North America They are working to make the region “a more competitive and prosperous place”, after raising the need to “explore shared markets” and reaffirming the regional commitment “in energy matters”.
A subsequent statement from the White House indicated that, in the Biden-López Obrador meeting, the issue of “war on fentanyl“, the drug that is most clandestinely exported from Mexico to the neighboring country and has claimed the lives of 108,000 people by overdose in 2021, according to official figures.
They will form a regional committee
López Obrador, for his part, indicated that the leaders of the area agreed to create a committee to plan and substitute imports to “seek to be more self-sufficient” in North America. And he assured that this will allow “making the development and cooperation and well-being of the three countries a reality.”
The Mexican president said that each country will propose four specialists that make up a working committee joint and pointed out that, on the Mexican side, it will be made up of the ministers of Foreign Relations Marcelo Ebrard, Treasury Rogelio Ramírez, the Minister of Economy, Raquel Buentrostro, and the businessman Alfonso Romo.
Agreements on migration policy
López Obrador thanked, at another time, Biden for his immigration policy in the midst of the largest wave of entry of people to USA in several decades and thanked that in his administration “a single meter of the border wall” has not been built, which his predecessor Donald Trump strove to build.
Biden, in turn, called on foreigners seeking to reach USA “that they stay in their place of origin” and recalled that, since he took office a year ago, the first project he presented is “on orderly migration” by recalling that the four main emitters of people are Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba and Nicaragua.
He stated that the government of USA works “in a process to humanitarianly support migrants from those countries” and promised with López Obrador to attack “the root causes of immigration, as well as to use “innovative perspectives to tackle irregular immigration”, after, In 2021, the United States detained more than 2 million people without documents, a historic figure.
For his part, the Mexican president asked Biden to intercede with the congress in washington so that millions of their compatriots can regularize their migratory statusacknowledging that “it is not a simple matter, but it is fair”.
The Canadian president stressed the importance of being prepared
For his part, Trudeau stressed the importance of preparing “for future pandemics” through the reinforcement of “cooperation in health matters in order to be ready to act.” He also pointed out that “we will be stronger in the face of the emergence of authoritarian leaders who cause insecurity.”
On behalf of his colleagues, López Obrador expressed his support for Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, after the occupation by hundreds of far-right followers of former President Jair Bolsonaro of the headquarters of the Three State Powers in Brasilia.
Source: Ambito
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