BY ROCÍO ZAYAS
The News
Mexico’s Undersecretary for Foreign Relations Carlos de Icaza met with Helga Schmid, deputy secretary-general for the European Union’s External Action Service (EAS), in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday to exchange viewpoints on the main issues of the bilateral, regional and global agenda.
Icaza said that the structural reforms passed during President Enrique Peña Nieto’s first year in office will have great importance for the strategic association between Mexico and the European Union, explaining that they will make Mexico’s economy more competitive, strengthen the country’s institutional regime and benefit Mexican citizens by expanding their rights.
Schmid acknowledged Mexico’s strategic importance for the European Union’s foreign policy, emphasizing Mexico’s increased profile on the world stage, as seen by its participation in the Geneva II Syria peace talks.
Both officials stressed the need to continue promoting issues of common interest on the international agenda, such as defending human rights, the rule of law and democracy. They also discussed the G20, the Pacific Alliance, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), the Geneva II peace talks and the situation in the Middle East in general.
Diego Gómez Pickering, Mexico’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, also said that the structural reforms approved last year should help attract foreign investment.
“What’s happening in Mexico now and what will happen this year when we begin to implement the reforms reaffirms before the eyes of international investors that the path the country is going down is the correct one,” Gómez Pickering said. “It’s a path that has created confidence and will make it possible to attract more foreign direct investment.”
He went on to say that one of this year’s goals in Mexico’s relationship with the United Kingdom is to exceed 2015’s bilateral trade target, which was set at $7 billion under the Calderón administration.
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