Mexico. Mexico stood firm Thursday in its recognition of the President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, against the United States actions to overthrow him and impose an illegitimate government.

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, in his morning press conference, in which the Venezuelan issue was addressed, was very clear and precise in answering that his government adheres to the national Constitution and its four basic principles.

These four principles, he enumerated, are non-intervention, self-determination of peoples, peaceful settlement of disputes, and respect for human rights.

From the combination of these principles, the new Mexican governmentÂ´s in this and other issues emerges.

It may be, he said, that groups of people or governments do not like them, but that is what our Constitution establishes and we must respect them. That’s our guide. We are not going to fall into speculation and we do not want confrontation or litigation but friendly relations with all governments and peoples of the world.

At that point, he gave the floor to the Foreign Minister, Marcelo Ebrard, present at the conference, who answered numerous questions from the journalists in the same line of thought expressed by the President.

The position that we adopted, he explained, is based on the constitutional principles of foreign policy, therefore Mexico will not accompany the ignorance of a constituted government, and said that there is no precedent of not recognizing one elected president and recognizing a non elected president at the same time.

Therefore, he reiterated, Mexico will not accompany any action of that nature. Of course, we are concerned about peace and human rights, which is why we support the position of the United Nations and that of making an effort to reduce tensions and avoid escalations that leads to violence.

He said that Mexico shared similar positions with Uruguay and that both sought to advance dialogue and peace and agreed not only with the Uruguayans but with many other countries in the world, including the UN that represents them all, and that is the Mexican position of non intervention and disposition to contribute with our bit on a solution.

To an incisive question from a journalist, the FM answered in a clear way: we have diplomatic relations with Venezuela that has a constituted government and we are not going to break them.

(Source: Presna Latina)