📋 Tender Overview
Virtual meeting, Bogota D.C. - Mexico City, December 19, 2024. The Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jorge Rojas Rodriguez, held a virtual working meeting with the Undersecretary for Latin America and the Caribbean, Raquel Serur Smeke. The meeting was attended by a large delegation, headed by the Director of America, Adriana Maldonado, and the Director of Migration, Consular Affairs and Citizen Service, Ambassador Jorge Alfredo Diaz.
The meeting was a valuable opportunity to deepen the strengthening of bilateral relations between the governments of Colombia and Mexico, advancing in defining a common agenda that includes priority issues such as addressing cases of Colombians denied entry into Mexican airports. In addition, it is part of a context of regional integration between the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Both countries agreed that migration must be addressed with a focus based on human rights and regional solidarity, promoting policies that recognize the structural causes of the migration phenomenon. Strategic actions were addressed to manage migration flows between both countries in a more organized manner, highlighting Mexicos political will to work together to review and investigate complaints of mistreatment reported by Colombians and the commitment to work to provide adequate treatment to travelers who transit through Mexican airports.
Likewise, the great value of Mexicos experience in railway infrastructure for the process of reactivating railways in Colombia was highlighted, in order to boost the economy and reduce environmental impact. In this sense, the transfer of knowledge, capabilities and technologies from Mexico in the renovation and construction of the Colombian railway network will continue to be encouraged. With Mexico, priorities are shared that strengthen the close collaboration in the objectives proposed by Colombia as pro tempore presidency of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). Both authorities ratified the commitment to continue strengthening alliances for the unity of Latin America and the Caribbean, highlighting the shared interest in environmental matters, protection of Human Rights, regional migration phenomenon, public health, fair and sustainable energy transition, among others.
Finally, Colombia extended an invitation to the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Juan Ramon de la Fuente, to make a working visit to Bogota next year, in order to advance binational commitments and actions based on the holding of a meeting of the Council of the Colombia-Mexico Strategic Relationship, chaired by the foreign ministers of both countries.
