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Mexican President travels to Brazil for G20 meeting

Claudia-Sheinbaum
Mexico City, Nov 17 (Prensa Latina) Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum left today for Brazil to attend the G20 Summit, to be held starting tomorrow with an emphasis on issues such as the fight against hunger and poverty.

“Leaving Mexico City for Brazil to participate tomorrow in the G20 Leaders Summit,” said the president in a message through her account on the social network X.

The dignitary recently announced that she will propose at the meeting to reduce spending on weapons and direct those resources to the care of those most in need.

“What I am going to present at the G20 is mainly the program Sembrando vida, -sowing life-,the proposal is to reduce a little, just a little, spending on weapons and instead of sowing wars, sow life and peace,” she said.

In this way, she explained, the quality of life of people improves, poverty decreases, the environment is supported and migration even decreases.

According to information from the Foreign Ministry, the president will participate only on the first day and in two plenary sessions: the opening session, which will address the fight against hunger and poverty, and another in the afternoon, focused on the reform of global governance institutions.

It is also expected that she will hold bilateral meetings with several heads of state, including the presidents of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva; of France, Emmanuel Macron, and of South Korea, Yoon Suk-Yeol.

The Mexican leader will also talk with the prime ministers of Canada, Justin Trudeau; of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer; of India, Narendra Modi; of Japan, Shigeru Ishiba, and of Vietnam, Pham Minh Chinh.

Sheinbaum will be back on the 19th to be in this capital on the 20th and join in the celebrations for the anniversary of the Mexican Revolution.

The Group of Twenty includes the 19 largest economies in the world, plus the European Union and the African Union, and represents 85 percent of the world’s Gross Domestic Product, 80 percent of investment, 75 percent of trade and 66 percent of the world’s population.

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