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“Mexico is taking measures to secure our southern border and suspend air travel from Europe” was the phrase that the President of the United States mentioned, Donald trump, in relation to the measures that are being carried out to prevent people from that continent from reaching their country through their southern neighbor.
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This he said during the press conference where he announced the closure of the land border with Mexico for 30 days and so prevent spurious travel with the purpose of slow the spread of the new coronavirus in the region.
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“As we did with Canada, also we are working with Mexico to implement new rules at our ports of entry to suspend non-essential travelTrump said. “These new rules and procedures will not impede trade”And will begin to apply from 00:01 on Saturday, March 21.
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On the possibility of suspending European flights to Mexico, Marcelo Ebrard, Secretary of Foreign Relations, explained that he spoke with the Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, on restlessness that people carrying the virus from Europe arrive in Mexico. “We understand that concern, because it is also ours” although he explained that “The Mexican position is that of do not suspend flights ”.
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Although he was sympathetic to the US arguments that there should be restrictions, he explained that the authorities have not yet reached a point of agreement. Instead, he explained that the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Communications and Transportation “must prepare and present measures to reduce the possibility that we have people with the virus “from the Old Continent.
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For his part, during the White House conference, Pompeo mentioned that the United States has given “Two important steps” this week to slow the spread of the virus, this in reference to the decisions of prevent the passage of trips of a tourist or recreational nature across its northern and southern borders.
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Earlier, during President López Obrador’s morning conference, Ebrard had confirmed the collaboration between both countries so that the border with Mexico will be closed to non-essential travel.
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“We ask that measures be taken to reduce the possible spread of the issue, do not decisively affect economic activity. The border with Mexico is not the same as the border with Canada. Canada requested measures at its border, since the number of cases is less than in the United States. The United States asked us to have a similar approach“commented the official.
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In addition to that, he revealed that after “Intense negotiations” with Pompeu a compendium of economic activities essential that would not be affected during this process. “We have made a catalog of which are the essential activities that should not be affected, so that it does not remain as something ethereal“Said the chancellor.
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“All the activities of commerce, transport of merchandise, logistical movements that have to do with commercial activity are not affected”, he explained about the measure that they coordinated jointly with the United States.
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It is worth mentioning that Ebrard emphasized that unlike the news that has been broadcast in the American Union, the border “does not close”. In addition, he gave certainty to Mexicans residing in the northern country: “All the people they work in the usa and that they have that authorization to move every day, will not be affected… Purchase of medicines, emergency services ”.
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On the Mexican side, the foreign minister accepted that due to the coronavirus emergency there is already effects on tourism, so he spoke of the existence of a “work team”, which coordinates actions for the recovery of the binational economy through the advancement of the new trade agreement between the three countries.
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“We are going to exhort, to promote that the population abstain from the border zone to make trips for their health. We will seek to improve health coordination. We want the T-MEC to come into force as soon as possible, because that is going to help us a lot to make up this circumstance, because the economy is sick globally and we have to take care of that. ”
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