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August 19, 2005

Mexico wants Bush-Fox meeting on border violence

By Juan Manuel Anguiano

El Economista

Mexico’s Foreign Ministry has made contact with the U.S. government, in order to define details for a possible meeting between Presidents Vicente Fox and George W. Bush, so the two can discuss the problem of insecurity and violence along the border.

In principle the meeting will be next month, in a border city that will be determined once President Bush completes his vacation on September 1.

The Under-secretariat of Foreign Affairs for North America, headed by Gerónimo Gutiérrez, will be in charge of all details of the meeting, during which other bilateral relationship problems will also be discussed.

Sources in the Office of the President said that as of yet no meeting between the two presidents has been scheduled, however they left the possibility open for the bilateral event to take place once the U.S. president resumes his activities early next month.