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The president Claudia Sheinbaum canceled the pause in the relationship with the US ambassador, Ken Salazarbut from now on the diplomat will understand himself only with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE).
In her morning press conference, the president also pointed out that “whoever wins” the presidential election in USA, will have to reach an agreement with Mexico to continue the exchange binational trade.
Last August, then-president Andrés Manuel López Obrador paused communication with Ken Salazarafter he criticized the reform to Judiciary.
Asked about it yesterday at the National Palace, Sheinbaum He specified: “A series of general guidelines were established, because sometimes the ambassador usually calls one secretary, another and another.
“So, now we told him ‘if you want to talk about any topic related to Secretary of Energy —because there are American businessmen interested in investing and they want to know the availability—well, let it be through the Foreign Ministry.’”
He pointed out that these new guidelines issued to the US ambassador “importantly order the relationship” and announced that Juan Ramon de la Fuenteholder of the SREwill later meet with the Canadian ambassador, Graeme C. Clarkwho also questioned the judicial reform.
The President affirmed that Mexico has good relations with all countries in the world, except with Ecuador and Peru.
“It will always be like this and, furthermore, our demonstration is always in favor of peace, non-intervention and self-determination of peoples. Of course, something else is Ecuador…or even Peru“, said.
Regarding the relationship with EU, Sheinbaum assured that “whoever wins” between Kamala Harris and donald trumpthey will have to reach an agreement with the country to continue with the exchangecommercial bio.
He assured that as neighbors, Mexico and EU They do not compete, but complement.
“Whoever wins, be the president trump or the vice president Kamalawe are going to agree. Our economies have a lot of integration, Canada, United States, Mexico. And I said it in the (inauguration) speech: we do not compete among ourselves, we complement each other,” he said.
He recalled that this is established in the trade agreement and highlighted that it was recently announced that Mexico reached a record in exports to the United States.
“The United States already depends heavily on Mexico, we are the main exporter, and we also have a very important relationship with the economies. Our objective is also for this to advance towards Central America and South America to make the entire continent an even greater strength, without obviously closing ourselves off to other markets and other countries, but we are going to agreedo,” he added.
He considered that the statements of the Republican candidate, donald trumpregarding the renegotiation of the T-MEC If they win, they have to do with the “stridentities” of the campaign.
Furthermore, he clarified that he was referring to products that come from China that are not reported and that even in the current T-MEC there are limitations.
Last Thursday, the former US president warned that if he reaches the presidency again White House will force the North American trade agreement to be renegotiated, especially to prevent China carry out the “smuggling” of products, such as auto parts, from factories located in Mexico.
The new guidelines in the relationship with the ambassador Ken Salazar They occur a week after the president Claudia Sheinbaum He had a telephone conversation with his American counterpart, Joe Bidenin which they addressed binational cooperation in economic, cultural and commercial matters.
Just the previous Wednesday, the chancellor Juan Ramon de la Fuente announced that the Mexican president asked to follow up on these “high political level” talks as soon as possible.
He even offered to clarify any “legitimate” doubts that EU have on the judicial reform.
