Ebrard starts tour in Korea to speed up TLC; will go to the G20 in Indonesia

Mexico City. After recovering from Covid-19, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Marcelo Ebrard, will make a work tour in South Korea and Indonesia this week.

The Mexican Foreign Ministry detailed in a statement that Ebrard will start the tour in Seoul, South Korea, on July 4. On the political front, he is expected to hold a meeting with Foreign Minister Park Jin and Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon.

It will also participate in the Korea-Latin America and the Caribbean Future Cooperation Forum 2022, organized by the Korean Foreign Ministry.

“I am going to be in Korea for a couple of days, it is a great trading partner of Mexico, it is an extremely important country for us, we are on the eve of starting negotiations for free trade,” Ebrard said in a message.

“It is a power in many fields, we can take many elements from what has been its development in technology, in innovation, the participation of the state in the economy together with the private sector, very interesting security, they are among the countries that have the most advanced their technological systems for that purpose”, he added.

Indeed, the Korean ambassador to Mexico, Yoon Suk-yeol, commented in an interview for El Economista on June 7 that his country is ready to start the first round of negotiations with Mexico to sign a free trade agreement.

While on July 7 and 8 he will be in Bali, Indonesia, to participate in the meeting of foreign ministers of the Group of 20 (G20).

“Imagine now the importance of this meeting, if it will always be, a very significant meeting now with more reason for the crisis we have with the invasion of Ukraine, the inflationary impact and many more issues that we are going to deal with there” said the chancellor.

Two sessions are planned at that meeting. One on strengthening multilateralism and another on food and energy security.

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