Nations Welcome Mexico's Proposal The News
go to original April 16, 2012

Calderón (C) said that Mexico will advocate the creation of a center to coordinate a hemispheric action plan against transnational organized crime.

Countries participating in the Sixth Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, unanimously approved President Felipe Calderón’s proposal to create an inter-American system to combat organized crime by the end of this year.

As a promoter of this organization, said Calderón, Mexico will host working meetings of experts, security officials and attorneys general of the hemisphere. The decisions made in these meetings, he added, will constitute a platform of policies and actions to be put into practice.

In a press conference on Sunday, Calderón said that Mexico will advocate the creation of a center to coordinate a hemispheric action plan against transnational organized crime, harmonizing the efforts of the region’s different agencies.

The Mexican president welcomed the system’s approval at the summit, although he acknowledged that in the end a more active role would be taken by the countries, “that are … suffering (the most) the scourge of transnational organized crime, and because we are going to take the first measures to organize it.”

Regarding the center, he said that Mexico will convene participating countries and provide technical assistance, “because it’s in our interest for it to work.” This requires, he added, the participation of the 33 countries in the system. Calderón said that, “the actions of the government do not create violence, it’s violence that demands the intervention of the government,” and said that this is why Mexico has insisted on the necessity of creating new and more effective cooperation mechanisms to confront organized crime.

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