AZMEX EXTRA 25-10-19

AZMEX EXTRA 25 OCT 2019

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Best contribution from the US to Mexico: stop the arms trafficking
Details Published on Friday, October 25, 2019,
Written by Notimex

http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=138267

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The head of the SRE, Marcelo Ebrard, considers that this is better than the delivery of weapons or helicopters; asks the US to monitor its border line to avoid arms trafficking

Foreign Secretary (SRE), Marcelo Ebrard, said that the most important contribution that the United States government can make in the fight against crime is not that it gives Mexico weapons or helicopters, but that it stops the illegal arms traffic .

At the morning press conference of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the foreign minister indicated that the illicit arms trade determines the fire capacity of the adversary of the institutions responsible for public security in Mexico and therefore, said,
(stop that traffic ) would be the most important contribution that the US government can make.

In National Palace, he commented that a meeting was held on Monday attended by the head of the Secretariats of Citizen Protection, National Defense and Marine, as well as the National Guard, which was attended by the United States ambassador to Mexico , Christopher Landau, and his team, to know specifically what that country will do in the fight against arms.

He recalled that since August 27, when there was still no ambassador, there was a high-level group to establish a security strategy with the U.S. and Mexico put their proposals on the table.

"For Mexico, there is a real effort by the United States to reduce illicit arms trafficking" and to do its homework on security in the area of ​​security in the border area that corresponds to it, he said.

He commented that at the meeting this Monday, the Ministry of Public Safety presented a catalog of weapons, not only for what happened last week in Culiacán, Sinaloa, but for the recount that was made so far this year on this issue.

Marcelo Ebrard mentioned that next week, the Secretariat will share the catalog of weapons, the United States measures to stop traffic and what Mexico has done on the matter, in a coordinated manner with customs and other instances.

What is involved is to prevent illicit arms trafficking, what we ask the United States is to monitor its border and that they review what they see passing to the Mexican side, as Mexico does from its territory, he said.

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