Enrique Pena Nieto, Ban Ki-Moon Meeting: U.N. Secretary General Calls For 'End to Poverty' Oscar Lopez - Latin Times
go to original April 16, 2014

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (R) with Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto at the opening of the First High-level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation in Mexico City April 15, 2014. (Presidency of the Republic)

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto met yesterday with the United Nations' Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon. The two spoke about ways of developing cooperation on issues of human rights, peace, security and an end to poverty. Peña Nieto thanked Ban Ki-moon for his visit and reiterated that Mexico's activity on a global level corresponds to his promise to make Mexico a counrtry with a global presence involved in all front os the international community.

Enrique Peña Nieto released a statemnt saying that the meeting centred around developing a multilateral agenda for development, human rights and maintainging peace and security across the nation. Ban Ki-moon, for his part, recognized Peña Nieto's efforts for encouraging disarmament and finding a peaceful solution to many of the conflicts in the country. However, Ki-moon also emphasized the necessity for improved development in an effort to "put an end to poverty" as well as further protection of human rights.

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