US Secretary of State Meets President-elect of Mexico, says Trump Wants to Improve Relationships

US President Donald Trump wants to strengthen and improve relations with Mexico after "jostling" along the way, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador Friday after overwhelming victory of the leftist politician this month.

Jared Kushner, Senior Advisor and Trump's son-in-law, participated in the Pompeo-led delegation, which earlier met with outgoing Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Minister of Foreign Affairs, L & # 39; arrival of senior US officials, including Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and National Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, shortly after the elections, could give both neighbors and allies the opportunity to repair the ties of more and more tense since the election of Trump in 2016.

"President Trump deeply cares about the success of this relationship," said Pompeo at the start of the 50-minute meeting during which he congratulated López Obrador, whom he will badume on December 1, and greet him as "Mr. President".

"Our presence here today is telling you," he said, according to a group of journalists traveling with him. "You have four of the top leaders here after your election."

Trump angered Mexico with demands that the country pay for a border wall and comments that the country is doing "nothing" to reduce immigration "We know that there have been obstacles between our two countries, but President Trump is determined to make relations between our peoples better and safer. "

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Outside the house in Mexico City where the meeting was held, Maria Garcia, 60, held a written plaque" Where are the immigrant children? "Among several protesters."

After meeting with the delegation, Peña Nieto issued a statement urging the speedy meeting of immigrant children separated from their parents under Trump's "zero tolerance" policy.

Mexico s 39 Opposes US Demand According to a source and a Reuters document, people seeking asylum in the United States preferred to ask Mexico.

Despite the ideological differences, Trump quickly congratulated López Obrador, the first left-wing president elected to power.Mexico for decades for his overwhelming electoral victory on July 1.

López Obrador, who also has nationalist and populist tendencies, says he wants good relations with the United States, although some political badysts said the two leaders could enter a confrontation if the US president makes comments that the Mexicans understand as insulting.

The Mexican-elected president will seek to pressure the United States to reduce immigration by helping to create better living conditions in Mexico and Central America, his team said. "If we solve violence and poverty and bring jobs and development to Mexico and Central America, we can take a considerable break," said Olga Sánchez, Obrador's choice for the United States minister. .

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Andrés Rozental, former Mexican Deputy Foreign Minister, said that he had no knowledge of a precedent for a high-ranking US delegation visiting a new government. .

"What this shows is a desire of both the United States and Mexico to examine relationships in a holistic manner," Rozental said. "We have been looking for this for a long time."