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MEXICO CITY – Foreign Affairs Secretary José Antonio Meade has urged Mexico’s international envoys to promote the country’s political reforms this year.
Meade outlined the work Mexico must do to consolidate its foreign policy yesterday at the 25th National Ambassadors and Consuls Meeting.
He said that this year marks three very important anniversaries for Mexico’s development: The 20th anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which he said “allowed us to open ourselves to competition and the world;” the 20th anniversary of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation (EZLN) uprising, “which reminded us about the social debt we have as a country;” and the 20th anniversary of Mexico’s entrance into the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), “which obliged us to always compare ourselves with the leading countries in the world.”
Meade made a call to all Mexican ambassadors and consuls to make Mexico a country of great transformations and a safe place in which to invest, as well as to promote a new way of doing politics through the Pact for Mexico.
After a brief recount of the tax, education, energy and telecommunications reforms that passed in general during 2013, he said that the year had been a turning point and that Mexican lawmakers still have much work to be done in respect to passing secondary laws pertaining to the reforms and their actual implementation.
“We have a respected voice in the world and because of it, local governments and the Mexican diplomatic body, we should have only one voice,” he said.
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