MEPs travel to Mexico and Costa Rica to discuss bilateral cooperation and geopolitical challenges
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26. Oktober 2023 In Aktuell, Allgemein, EN

MEPs travel to Mexico and Costa Rica to discuss bilateral cooperation and geopolitical challenges

A seven-member delegation of MEPs will visit Mexico and Costa Rica from 31 October to 2 November to discuss cooperation amid ongoing geopolitical challenges.

The Chair of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, David McAllister (EPP, Germany), will lead the delegation. MEPs will meet with parliamentary counterparts, officials and government representatives of both countries. In Mexico City from Tuesday 31 October to Wednesday 1 November, they will discuss joint efforts to boost the EU-Mexico Strategic Partnership and ongoing work to conclude the modernised Global Agreement between the EU and Mexico. While there, they will meet the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Alicia Bárcena lbarra, the President of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, Marcela Guerra Castillo, several members of parliament and representatives of civil society organisations. Other topics set to feature on the agenda include the Israel-Palestine conflict and Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, the security and migration crises as well as EU-Latin American parliamentary cooperation and human rights issues.

MEPs will visit Costa Rica’s capital San José on Thursday 2 November for meetings with government officials and parliamentarians. They will discuss a broad range of issues, including EU-Costa Rica bilateral and multilateral cooperation, geopolitical, security and migration challenges, Costa Rica’s region role in Central America, the EU’s Global Gateway initiative, and parliamentary ties. During their visit, the delegation will meet with, among others, Costa Rica’s First Vice-President Stephan Brunner, Vice Minister of Multilateral Affairs Alejandro Solano Ortiz, President of Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly Rodrigo Arias Sánchez, and members of the same assembly’s foreign affairs committee. They will also hold meetings with representatives of the exiled Nicaraguan opposition.