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Mexico hoping for bigger role for emerging nations, U.S. engagement
TOKYO, Nov. 20 Kyodo - Mexico anticipates that emerging economies will play a more important role in tackling global challenges and hopes the United States will take a more multilateral approach under the incoming administration of Barack Obama, Mexico's deputy foreign minister, who is visiting Japan, said Thursday.
Juan Manuel Gomez-Robledo, undersecretary for multilateral issues and human
rights at Mexico's Foreign Ministry, said in an interview with Kyodo News, ''It
is quite clear that decisions that international community will take over the
next few years to shape the 21st century are to be taken by a larger number of
states.''
The undersecretary said the deepening global financial crisis is ''only another
sign of a need to reshuffle the global architecture'' to give emerging
economies more say.
He also told a seminar held the same day to commemorate 120 years of diplomatic
relations between Japan and Mexico that a global financial summit held in
Washington last week ''laid the groundwork'' for a new international financial
system.
At the summit, the leaders of 20 major advanced and emerging economies,
including Japan and Mexico, generally agreed to work toward strengthening the
role of emerging nations in international financial institutions.
Gomez-Robledo also said that emerging nations should play a more responsible
role in global efforts to fight climate change, as they are now major emitters
of greenhouse gases.
''It is not true to say that all the developed ones created the problem.
Developing ones are also part of the problem. So you need also everyone's
contribution to solve the problem,'' he said.
As for security issues, the undersecretary said he anticipates that the United
States will change its policy toward Iraq under the Obama administration.
''I think the U.S. will work again in a much more closer fashion with the
United Nations. They have said it already that the U.N. will be more present in
Iraq to prepare for the next phase, whatever this next phase will be,''
Gomez-Robledo said.
''We all expect them to come back (to multilateralism) and engage with others.
It is the most important thing,'' he said of the U.S. diplomatic stance.
On bilateral relations, the undersecretary said the two countries ''have a lot
of things in common and are responsible players'' in the international
community, indicating that Japan and Mexico can cooperate in areas such as
climate change, health, poverty reduction and reform of the U.N. Security
Council.
Japan and Mexico were both elected as nonpermanent members of the council for
two-year terms beginning in January 2009.
The bilateral relationship ''goes beyond investment and economic exchanges,''
Gomez-Robledo said.
Japan and Mexico signed the Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation in 1888 to
launch diplomatic relations.
==Kyodo
Juan Manuel Gomez-Robledo, undersecretary for multilateral issues and human
rights at Mexico's Foreign Ministry, said in an interview with Kyodo News, ''It
is quite clear that decisions that international community will take over the
next few years to shape the 21st century are to be taken by a larger number of
states.''
The undersecretary said the deepening global financial crisis is ''only another
sign of a need to reshuffle the global architecture'' to give emerging
economies more say.
He also told a seminar held the same day to commemorate 120 years of diplomatic
relations between Japan and Mexico that a global financial summit held in
Washington last week ''laid the groundwork'' for a new international financial
system.
At the summit, the leaders of 20 major advanced and emerging economies,
including Japan and Mexico, generally agreed to work toward strengthening the
role of emerging nations in international financial institutions.
Gomez-Robledo also said that emerging nations should play a more responsible
role in global efforts to fight climate change, as they are now major emitters
of greenhouse gases.
''It is not true to say that all the developed ones created the problem.
Developing ones are also part of the problem. So you need also everyone's
contribution to solve the problem,'' he said.
As for security issues, the undersecretary said he anticipates that the United
States will change its policy toward Iraq under the Obama administration.
''I think the U.S. will work again in a much more closer fashion with the
United Nations. They have said it already that the U.N. will be more present in
Iraq to prepare for the next phase, whatever this next phase will be,''
Gomez-Robledo said.
''We all expect them to come back (to multilateralism) and engage with others.
It is the most important thing,'' he said of the U.S. diplomatic stance.
On bilateral relations, the undersecretary said the two countries ''have a lot
of things in common and are responsible players'' in the international
community, indicating that Japan and Mexico can cooperate in areas such as
climate change, health, poverty reduction and reform of the U.N. Security
Council.
Japan and Mexico were both elected as nonpermanent members of the council for
two-year terms beginning in January 2009.
The bilateral relationship ''goes beyond investment and economic exchanges,''
Gomez-Robledo said.
Japan and Mexico signed the Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation in 1888 to
launch diplomatic relations.
==Kyodo
