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José Antonio Meade and María Ángela Holguín Cuéllar, the respective foreign ministers of Mexico and Colombia, met on Sunday to discuss the bilateral agenda of their countries during a Pacific Alliance summit held in Cartagena, Colombia.
Meade and Holguín Cuéllar both spoke of the increase in bilateral trade between Mexico and Colombia since 1994, when the two countries signed a free trade agreement. Following the agreement, Colombia has become Mexico’s second most important Latin American trade partner — the most important within the Pacific Alliance — as well as the third-largest destination of Mexican investment in the region, for an accumulated amount of $7.4 billion.
The foreign ministers agreed to hold the next meeting of the mixed commissions on educational, technical and cultural issues during the first half of 2014, saying that the two countries have already established a high degree of cooperation through current student and academic exchanges, as well as archaeological and anthropological projects and cinematographic, literary and diplomatic programs.
According to Meade and Holguín Cuéllar, the elimination of visa requirements among Pacific Alliance member countries in 2012 has increased the flow of visitors between Mexico and Colombia, with 98,000 Colombian tourists visiting Mexico in 2013 alone.
Holguín Cuéllar also said that the Colombian government supports Mexico’s presidency of the Association of Caribbean States
(ACS).
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