Migrants, investment and anti-inflationary plan, topics of presidential visit to the US: SRE

Andrea Becerril

Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday July 9, 2022, p. 4

The objective of the work tour to the United States that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will carry out next week is strengthen collaboration on key issues for both countries and consolidate dialogue with the private sector, in order to promote investment in Mexicoreported the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Permanent Commission.

A meeting is scheduled with senior executives of companies that are part of the CEO Dialogue, in order to find new spaces to increase and facilitate private investment in Mexico, as well as present advances and opportunities for collaboration in the main national development projectsspecifies the Foreign Ministry in the official letter addressed to that body of Congress, in which it notifies it that, due to this trip to Washington, the federal Executive will be absent from the country from the 11th to the 13th of this month.

A meeting is planned with the President of the United States, Joseph Biden, and their respective delegations, another with Vice President Kamala Harris and the third with businessmen.

This trip will be a follow-up to the discussions initiated previously with President Joseph Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, including the Vice President’s trip to Mexico in June 2021, the bilateral meetings in the context of the ninth Summit of North American Leaders North in November 2021, and multiple virtual and telephone conversationsdetails the SRE.

The activities of the working tour of Washington will begin on the 12th and it is estimated that the discussions with Biden They will revolve around the joint efforts of international cooperation for development in Central America, migratory flows in the region and attention to their structural causes..

Also, around promoting greater economic integration and post-pandemic recoverywhich includes coordination in economic matters to combat inflation, opportunities to consolidate regional value chains and close collaboration in matters of security within the Bicentennial Understanding, among other issues”.

In the document, the Foreign Ministry also highlights that “from the Mexican perspective, this work tour is key to consolidating collaboration between the two countries at the highest level and advancing on priority issues.