Mexican Chancellor Patricia Espinosa, toured internationally to achieve political rapprochement with countries in the context of the upcoming climate change summit to be held in Mexico in next December.
Between May 31 and June 3, the ambassador kept contacts with the authorities in Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. As reported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE), the purpose was to exchange views and close positions for the XVI Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-16) and VI Session of the Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, to be held in December 2010 in Cancun.
The countries of the Arabian Peninsula, power producing oil and gas play a strategic role in the adoption of mitigation measures to climate change and the development of new technologies that will help that goal. That's why Mexico considers it essential to have the support of these nations to address the topic and achieve the required balance, including the promotion of renewable energy sources, which directly affects their economic development.
As part of the tour, Espinosa participated in the "Forum on Global Redesign Initiative," organized by the World Economic Forum held in Doha, Qatar, which included an important discussion on the prospects of the COP16, there also spoke with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy and Industry Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah.
In Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, the official met with the titular of the Environment and Water, Rashed Ahmed Bin Fahad, and the Assistant Foreign Minister and Special Envoy for Energy and Climate Change, Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber . Also held meetings with State Minister for Foreign Affairs and of State for Federal National Council Affairs
Anwar Mohammed Gargash, and the interim CEO of the International Renewable Energy Agency, Helene Hairy. In Saudi Arabia, met with the Minister of Petroleum & Natural Resources, Ali bin Ibrahim Al-Naimi.
COP-16 represents an opportunity to consolidate the understandings reached in Copenhagen COP-15, and Mexico, as incoming President, works to build the trust required in the process of negotiation, listening to the concerns and have placed the interests of all countries and regions, according to chancery said.
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