“We are very respectful to whomever is elected,” the Mexican president said. | AP Photo Mexico's president: 'No way' we'd pay for a wall

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto said he will work with whoever is elected president of the United States in November, but he wants to make one thing clear: Mexico will not be paying for a wall.

“There is no way to have Mexico pay the — a wall, but any decisions inside United States is a decision of its government,” Peña Nieto told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in an interview that aired Sunday on Zakaria’s program. “There is no way that Mexico can pay [for] a wall like that.”


Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump has since the start of his presidential campaign called for the construction of a wall along the U.S.' southern border, designed to keep Mexicans from coming across the border illegally.

Peña Nieto also hit Trump for his characterizations of Mexicans, saying he “cannot agree with such a generalization for Mexicans” being rapists, drug dealers and criminals.

“There's no way to agree with comments like these which describe all Mexicans in such a way,” he said. “I believe that in every country, there are individuals who are criminals, that we need to fight and apply the full extent of the law.”

On the election itself, Peña Nieto said he’s “sure that both [Clinton and Trump] would like to build good conditions and better wellness for their people.

“We are very respectful to whomever is elected,” he continued. “We want to build a positive and constructive relation among Mexico and to whomever becomes president of United States.”

