AMLO- U.S. High-Level Delegation Meeting

August 16, 2021

Institutional context

Since 2007, multiple meetings have been held between Mexico and the United States regarding security, however, there is no bilateral communication mechanism in specific.

The last time the U.S. High-Level Delegation visited Mexico was in 2018, with Mike Pompeo as the U.S Secretary of State accompanied by the Senior Advisor to the President Jared Kushner, Secretary of Homeland Security Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, and Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin.

AMLO- U.S. High-Level Delegation Meeting

On August 10th, 2021, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, accompanied by the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon, received at the National Palace the delegation of the United States government led by The National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, and by The Senior Director for The Western Hemisphere of the National Security Council, Juan Gonzalez, to discuss bilateral and regional issues of mutual interest.

During the meeting, the functionaries discussed the continuation of the High Level Economic Dialogue (HLED). A secondary topic was the establishment of a work route for a possible meeting between President López Obrador and U.S. President Joseph Biden.

Representatives from both countries agreed to continue cooperative work in order to manage orderly, regular and safe migration flows with respect for the human rights of migrants from Mexico and Central America.