Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said he had no response from senior Biden administration officials when he insisted that Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua should be at the Summit of the Americas. «They were very respectful; they did not tell us that they reject our proposal, but we know that their position is different“, he expressed.
Ebrard was in Washington DC, where he spoke with the Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, and the Secretary of National Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, on migration issues and on preparations for the Summit of the Americas, to be held in Los Angeles in June.
With these meetings, Mexico and the United States intensified negotiations to agree on a regional strategy to address the migration crisis. The Biden government expects it to increase with the lifting of Title 42, the public health order that has prevented asylum seekers from entering the United States.
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Accompanied by the Mexican ambassador to the United States, Esteban Moctezuma, and the head of the Foreign Ministry for North America, Roberto Velasco, Ebrard reported that he first met with Mayorkas, with whom he discussed the lifting of Title 42. Mayorkas has said that the Migration levels will grow when this happens, and he raised with Ebrard the need to work on a regional scheme to address the issue.
Ebrard told both officials that Mexico proposes to hold a conference in Central America in the short term in order to present a strategy for economic development and job creation.
The White House highlighted in a statement that in the meeting with Ebrard, “Blinken highlighted how the Summit of the Americas will be based on the strong collaboration between the United States and Mexico, especially with regard to democracy, clean energy, climate change, technology and resistance to pandemics”.
