Mexico declines Trump’s invitation to join Board of Peace: Tuesday’s mañanera recapped

Mexico’s determination to crook down U.S. President Donald Trump’s invitation to articulation his Board of Peace and the strengthening of the economical narration with Canada were among the issues President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke astir astatine her Tuesday greeting property conference.

Here is simply a recap of the president’s Feb. 17 mañanera.

Mexico declines Trump’s invitation to articulation Board of Peace 

Sheinbaum told reporters that her authorities declined the connection from Trump to articulation his Board of Peace (BoP), an enactment helium formally established earlier this year.

The White House said successful January that the BoP would “play an indispensable relation successful fulfilling each 20 points” of Trump’s Gaza bid plan, “providing strategical oversight, mobilizing planetary resources, and ensuring accountability arsenic Gaza transitions from struggle to bid and development.”

Sheinbaum said that her authorities had already communicated its determination not to articulation the committee to the United States.

She explained that the determination to crook down the invitation Trump extended successful precocious January was due to the fact that Mexico recognizes Palestine arsenic a state, but Palestine won’t beryllium represented astatine a BoP gathering scheduled to instrumentality spot successful Washington, D.C., this Thursday. Israel, successful contrast, will beryllium represented astatine the inaugural BoP meeting arsenic it is a subordinate of the board.

🔴 México nary participará de manera directa en la llamada “Junta de Paz” convocada por Donald Trump, informó la presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum.

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“The information of some states, Israel and Palestine, is important. But that is not however it is being acceptable retired successful the meeting,” Sheinbaum said.

“It’s being projected that we spell [to the meeting] arsenic observers. So, our ambassador to the United Nations volition astir apt spell arsenic an observer,” she added.

Among the countries that accepted Trump’s connection to articulation the BoP are Argentina, Hungary, Indonesia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.

Trump said connected Truth Social connected Sunday that the committee has “unlimited potential,” and noted that helium volition beryllium joined by its members “at the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace successful Washington, D.C” this Thursday.

At the meeting, “we volition denote that Member States person pledged much than $5 BILLION DOLLARS toward the Gaza Humanitarian and Reconstruction efforts, and person committed thousands of unit to the International Stabilization Force and Local Police to support Security and Peace for Gazans,” helium wrote.

“Very importantly, Hamas indispensable uphold its committedness to Full and Immediate Demilitarization. The Board of Peace volition beryllium to beryllium the astir consequential International Body successful History, and it is my grant to service arsenic its Chairman,” Trump said.

Sheinbaum: ‘We’re strengthening our narration with Canada’

A newsman noted that determination has been speculation that the United States could retreat from the USMCA — which is up for trilateral reappraisal this twelvemonth — and highlighted that a presumption has emerged that Mexico is seeking a “plan B with Canada.”

“More than a program B, we’re strengthening our narration with Canada,” Sheinbaum said.

Mexico, Canada denote associated economical enactment program for a post-USMCA future

Indeed, Mexico and Canada are aiming to deepen their economical integration via a associated enactment plan, an inaugural Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard announced connected Monday aft gathering with Dominic LeBlanc, Canada’s curate for Canada-U.S. trade, intergovernmental affairs and One Canadian Economy.

Sheinbaum noted that a ample contingent of Canadian businesspeople is presently successful Mexico exploring concern opportunities.

The “objective” successful the narration with Canada is “to fortify not conscionable commercialized but concern arsenic well,” she said.

“There are galore Mexican agri-food products that we tin export to Canada [and] we tin besides import products from Canada. We besides privation much concern from Canadian companies successful our country, … and we privation Mexican companies to person investments successful Canada,” Sheinbaum said.

“So the Mexico-Canada narration volition beryllium strengthened, but that doesn’t mean the statement won’t exist,” she said, referring to the USMCA.

“As I’ve said respective times, the USMCA volition remain. There whitethorn beryllium immoderate modifications, but it volition stay successful spot due to the fact that it is beneficial for the 3 countries,” Sheinbaum said.

Sheinbaum: There is ‘a batch of involvement successful Mexico’ arsenic an concern destination 

Asked what concerns she has heard from overseas businesspeople astir investing successful Mexico, Sheinbaum initially asserted that “nobody” has spoken astir “any problem.”

However, she subsequently conceded that concerns person been raised astir the magnitude of clip it takes to implicit the bureaucratic procedures that are required to get a task of the ground.

Sheinbaum told reporters that the authorities is moving hard to trim the clip it takes for investors to implicit those procedures. Indeed, reducing the mean clip betwixt an concern announcement and the execution of a task from 2.6 years to 1 twelvemonth is 1 of the goals of the government’s Plan México economical initiative.

Sheinbaum didn’t notation insecurity oregon infrastructure bottlenecks arsenic concerns for investors, though they are commonly cited arsenic problems that forestall Mexico from reaching its afloat imaginable arsenic an concern destination.

Instead, she stressed that determination is “a batch of involvement successful Mexico” arsenic an concern destination.

Mexico received conscionable implicit US $40.9 cardinal successful overseas nonstop concern (FDI) successful the archetypal 9 months of past year, a grounds high. The Economy Ministry has not yet reported the FDI full for the entirety of 2025.

By Mexico News Daily main unit writer Peter Davies ([email protected])