MEXICO-EL SALVADOR Salvador's Sanchez Ceren eyes closer Mexico ties during official visit

Record ID: 307844

  • Title: MEXICO-EL SALVADOR Salvador's Sanchez Ceren eyes closer Mexico ties during official visit
  • Date: 1st November 2014
  • Summary: SANCHEZ CEREN WITH PENA NIETO / SANCHEZ CEREN GREETING MEXICAN FOREIGN MINISTER JOSE ANTONIO MEADE GENERAL VIEW OF SANCHEZ CEREN GREETING MINISTERS FROM MEXICAN GOVERNMENT GENERAL VIEW OF CEREMONY AT NATIONAL PALACE
  • Embargoed: 16th November 2014 12:00
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  • Location: Mexico
  • Country: Mexico
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA5DMXQPDZ7O8LZQOEBKS1OB3C5
  • Story Text: El Salvador's President Salvador Sanchez Ceren arrived in Mexico City on Friday (October 31) for a four-day official visit to Latin America's second biggest economy to boost commercial and development ties between the long-time allies.
    Greeted by President Enrique Pena Nieto at Mexico City's National Palace, the two leaders will discuss greater cooperation in areas of trade and investment, scientific research and greater cultural cooperation.
    Expected to be high on the agenda is immigration. Over the past several months, U.S., Mexican and Central American officials have struggled to stop a surge of immigrants attempting to cross into the United States, including tens of thousands of unaccompanied children.
    WIth Central American migrants often at the mercy of Mexican gangs, cartels and corrupt police as they head north to the U.S. border, Sanchez Ceren urged Pena Nieto to keep working on issue of migrants' rights.
    "For my government, it is of interest that Mexico continues to work on the issue of of migration in respect to and guaranteeing human rights. This is why I have reiterated to President Pena Nieto the importance of giving comprehensive attention to and identifying groups that are vulnerable, particularly women, boys and girls, adolescents and adults," he said.
    El Salvador is one of the poorest countries in the Americas. Foreign assistance from Mexico to the Central American nation is expected to reach $125 million this year in aid and development projects.
    Pena Nieto hailed Mexico's ties to Central America.
    "Mexico has a foreign policy of closer ties with all the Latin American region, Mexico as a Latin American country and in a special way with Central America. We have established different mechanisms to widen our cooperation," he said.
    Sanchez Ceren took office earlier this year and this is his first visit to Mexico as leader of the Central American nation. During his itinerary, the Salvadoran leader will hold talks with business leaders in Mexico to boost investment to El Salvador.

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