(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador have pledged to create a working teams on arms trafficking and associated transborder crime and border safety, the White Home stated in a press release issued Friday.
Biden and Lopez Obrador additionally introduced a joint funding to deal with causes of migration, enhance incomes for small farmers and cut back deforestation in southern Mexico, the White Home stated of Thursday’s assembly of the 2.
The presidents mentioned the significance of investigating and prosecuting human traffickers and looking for a brand new regional compact on migration.
The US and Mexico additionally pledged to enter right into a Memorandum of Understanding for joint cooperation on psychological well being, substance use dysfunction, and addictions.
(Reporting By Paul Grant; Enhancing by Hugh Lawson)
