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STORY: UN / MEXICO BARCENA PRESSER
TRT: 02:23
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: 20, 27 SEPTEMBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY
20 SEPTEMBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters
27 SEPTEMBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press room dais
3. Med shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Alicia Bárcena, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Mexico:
“So, one of the things we would like to see is that the government of the US seriously considers documenting and regularising at least those Mexicans that have been in the US for more than ten years, working in the country and contributing to the economy. Because we know that the Mexicans have been contributing quite a bit to the economy of the US and, with their taxes, with their work, and more or less, we are calculating 400 billion dollars of contribution from the Mexican communities, per year.”
5. Med shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Alicia Bárcena, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Mexico:
“The international community has to allow Venezuelans to take their own decisions with certain sovereignty. So that's where Mexico is, at the moment. That doesn't mean we are not interested. Of course we are interested, very interested. And we continue talking, between us, among us. But we don't believe in intervention. We are a country that has, as a policy, as a principal, non-intervention and respect for the sovereignty of other countries.”
7. Wide shot, press room dais
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alicia Bárcena, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Mexico:
“What Mexico had asked for was a sort of encounter of redress, from 500 years ago, it’s clear. And that we could really combine it with something very positive as well, which is this great coexistence that we have today, and many of us are a mixture of Mexico and Spain, I mean myself, right? In other words, my family is from Spain and that's the way it is. And many of us are like this. I am Mexican, of course, but I think what we have to consider is that what the President of Mexico requested was not answered at the time. In other words, it's not a recent problem, it's a problem from before. But the Government of Spain was invited to the inauguration. Of course it was. The thing is that the President was invited, the Minister was invited, the corresponding Spanish authorities were invited.”
9. Wide shot, end of presser
Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Alicia Bárcena, today (27 Sep) told journalists in New York that Mexican migrants contribute 400 billion dollars a year to the US economy and said the US government should “seriously” consider “documenting and regularising at least those Mexicans that have been in the US for more than ten years.”
Talking to the press on the margins of the UN General Assembly’s General debate, Bárcena was asked about the situation in Venezuela.
She said, “the international community has to allow Venezuelans to take their own decisions with certain sovereignty. So that's where Mexico is, at the moment. That doesn't mean we are not interested. Of course we are interested, very interested. And we continue talking, between us, among us. But we don't believe in intervention. We are a country that has, as a policy, as a principal, non-intervention and respect for the sovereignty of other countries.”
Asked about the current spat with Spain over the non-invite of Spain’s King Felipe to president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum’s inauguration, Bárcena said, “what Mexico had asked for was a sort of encounter of redress,” for Mexico’s Indigenous people, for events related to the Spanish conquest 500 years ago.
She said, “we could really combine it with something very positive as well, which is this great coexistence that we have today,” noting that many Mexicans, including herself, are of Spanish descent.
The Foreign Minister said, “what we have to consider is that what the President of Mexico requested was not answered at the time. In other words, it's not a recent problem, it's a problem from before. But the Government of Spain was invited to the inauguration. Of course it was. The thing is that the President was invited, the Minister was invited, the corresponding Spanish authorities were invited.”
