Mexican Foreign Minister Alicia Bárcena Ibarra has congratulated India on its G20 chairmanship and said the country did a “fantastic job” with the summit in New Delhi.
The G20 Summit witnessed the arrival of world leaders in New Delhi from September 9 to 10.
Speaking to ANI, the Mexican Foreign Minister said, “I would like to congratulate India and the ministers for the fantastic work done within the G20. I think great progress has been made in the declaration and in returning to many issues that are so crucial to the agenda. …the multilateral agenda.”
She also congratulated India on its successful moon mission Chandrayaan-3 and stated that it is a great progress.
“I would like to congratulate India on landing on the moon. I think that is a great progress and we have discussed cooperation in the space industry, or we have an agency… a space agency that we want to bring together, I mean we want to work together “, said the minister.
After a 40-day journey through space, the Chandrayaan-3 lander, ‘Vikram’, landed on the moon’s unidentified south pole on August 23, making India the first country to do so. After traveling more than 100 meters across the lunar surface from the Shiv Shakti Point, the landing site of the Vikram lander on the lunar surface, the Pragyan Rover was safely parked and put into sleep mode on September 2.
Meanwhile, Mexico’s Foreign Minister further said, “And then we discussed the IT forum, that is, a meeting that will take place in India, I think… and then of course we will participate in it. We discussed in certain ways that have to do with traditional medicine, which we are very interested in, looking at the Indian experience and vice versa.”
“We have a few MOUs that we are signing on Cofepris and India’s medical entities. Finally, we discussed matters of the world, the BRICS, the Security Council, matters, and I think we have agreed on mechanisms for how we can deal with each other. Better for Mexico it is important to participate in the BRICS debates, not to become members, but we want to be there. And also in the discussions of the Security Council: how can we enter into intergovernmental negotiations,” she said. ANI.
“And of course India has a candidacy for the Security Council, which we are happy to support,” the minister added.
Earlier, the Mexican Foreign Minister held a bilateral meeting with Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar on the sidelines of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Relations between India and Mexico have always been friendly, cordial and cordial, characterized by mutual understanding and growing bilateral trade and overall cooperation.
Both countries are large emerging economies, with similar socio-economic development priorities and constraints, and, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, have democratic, secular and pluralistic systems and convergent worldviews.
Jaishankar will lead the Indian delegation on a week-long visit to New York, where he will address the United Nations General Assembly on September 26.
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