Wednesday, Manuel López Obrador, Mexico's newly elected President, met with ambassadors from 22 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. At the end of this meeting, Marcelo Ebrard, the next Secretary of Foreign Affairs offered a press conference in the halfway house where he declared :

"It was a very warm, very fraternal meeting, Mexico does not only want to see the South, but to find with Latin America and the Caribbean, a common vision of the future, what I say is very ambitious, but we want to achieve it. We are not talking about trade relations that are very important, but to find with the political will a common vision of the future. We live in a changing world threatened by protectionist tendencies in some countries and the weakening of multilateral institutions, in this environment we must bring countries closer together."

In his speech, the Ambassador of Haiti, Guy Lamothe, said "It was a meeting of family and neighbors, to discuss the family problems of Latin America, Central America and the Caribbean. We saw on the part of the President-elect a spirit, a will, as was the case during the campaign, to get closer to the South, the Caribbean and so that Mexico is more plural and that during his 6 years of mandate, Mexico is a beacon of integration, cooperation and rapprochement [...] Today, we discussed Group issues, in front of Mexico, with Mexico, for Mexico and for the Group. Mexico has diplomatic relations with all these countries, after the installation of the President, we will have to discuss bilateral issues.

The meeting was attended by the Ambassadors of: Guatemala, Belize, Haiti, Uruguay, Panama, Venezuela, Peru, Honduras, Colombia, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Argentina, Guatemala, El Salvador, Chile, Nicaragua, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Paraguay and Ecuador.

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