The U.S. government does not want to build new sections of wall on its border with Mexico, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday, expressing doubt that the planned construction would be carried out.
"It's pure publicity," Lopez Obrador said in a regular morning press conference, after the Biden administration announced it would build additional sections of border wall, carrying forward a signature policy of the Trump administration.
A high-ranking delegation of U.S. officials met Thursday with their Mexican counterparts, among them U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. "They don't want to , that's what they told us," Lopez Obrador said.Biden, when he took office in 2021, pledged that "no more American taxpayer dollars be diverted to construct a border wall."
Mexico's president added that in the meetings the day before, the Mexican delegation expressed that Mexico "does not believe to be the answer to the migration problem."Sweden will send Ukraine a new military support package worth 2.2 billion crowns - consisting mainly of artillery ammunition - and is looking into sending fighter jets, Defence Minister Pal Jonson said.
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