By: Real America News Updated 09 Feb 2022, 29: 29 pm EST
The Spanish Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, said this Wednesday that he will ask what the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, meant when he proposed “a pause” in relations between the two countries.
In his usual press conference, López Obrador proposed doing “a pause” in relations with Spain and its companies, because both countries must take time to respect each other and not see Mexico as a “land of conquest”.
“We want to have good relations, but we don’t want them to rob us”, expressed the Mexican president.
“I am going to verify the scope of these statements that, I understand, have been produced in an informal setting and do not respond to an official position, or an official statement”, said Albares, at the end of the joint meeting of the ministers of Foreign Affairs and Health of the European Union in Lyon, France.
The head of the diploma Spanish acia said: ” We should ask President Obrador what he meant “, after stressing that his words of this Wednesday they contradict their latest statements on the relationship with Spain.
“Relations between Mexico and Spain are a strategic partnership that goes beyond sudden verbal statements or punctual words. The Government of Spain has not taken any action that could justify such a declaration”, he pointed out.
” What business relations show is that the investment flows in both directions do not make more to be increased. Far from the pause, what we are talking about is an increase in our business relations that the governments, both governments, must accompany”.
The minister emphasized that the Government will defend the interests of Spain in any circumstance and before any country.
López Obrador affirmed that there was a “collusion at the top, an economic and political promiscuity, at the top of the Governments of Mexico and Spain”, during “three six-year terms in a row”.
“It is the case of Spanish companies, if now the relationship is not good and I would like it if we even took a while for it to normalize, to take a break, which I think will suit us Mexicans and Spaniards, of course people of Mexico and the people of Spain”.
The declarations of the president of Mexico were not well received by a large sector of journalism and academics.
As distracting as it is and the proverbial mirrors and smoke, The President’s diplomatic vandalism is unheard of -wow, Trumpian- and it’s costing #Mexico dearly in terms of international reputation and foreign policy interests! https://t.co/IaskWsAT4K— Arturo Sarukhan (@Arturo_Sarukhan) February 9,
It’s good that you clarify it, because that thing about “pausing ” in relations with Spain sounded like the prelude to a breakup.
These are the risks of trivializing the podium and the presidential word in that slippery morning format. https://t.co/XyxxU50oxd—Gabriel Guerra C (@gabrielguerrac) February 9 ,
If AMLO’s statement that Mexico will “pause” in its relationship with Spain it is a smoke screen to distract attention, bad; if it is an outburst of anger and Hispanophobia, worse. Do not play with that. The relationship is not only important for them, but also for us. — Agustín Basave (@abasave) February 9,