[CTC] Report: Trump, Peña Nieto to meet next week in Washington

[Arthur Stamoulis]

Politico Pro
 
Report: Trump, Peña Nieto to meet next week in Washington
 
By SABRINA RODRIGUEZ <https://www.politicopro.com/staff/sabrina-rodriguez>
Feb 22, 2018 4:26 PM EST
 
President Donald Trump and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto are set to meet next week in Washington, D.C., to discuss ongoing issues in the U.S.-Mexico relationship, Mexican news magazine Proceso <http://www.proceso.com.mx/523253/la-proxima-semana-reunion-trump-pena-en-washington/amp> reported.
 
The bilateral summit will take place Feb. 27-28, according to the report. The meeting has not been confirmed by either the White House or the Mexican government.
 
Peña Nieto’s reported visit falls in the middle of the seventh round of the NAFTA renegotiation, which is slated to begin on Sunday in Mexico City.
 
The leaders met for the first time since Trump took office in July 2017, on the sidelines of the G-20 summit. Peña Nieto garnered widespread criticism in Mexico for failing to push back against Trump’s comments that Mexico “absolutely” would pay for a border wall.
 
Earlier this week, in a phone call with Peña Nieto, Trump underscored his "commitment to expanding cooperation between the United States and Mexico on security, trade and immigration," according to the White House.
 
Last week, the Mexican Foreign Ministry said in a statement that a meeting between Trump and Peña Nieto would take place soon. That statement was occasioned by Foreign Secretary Luis Videgaray's visit <https://www.politicopro.com/trade/whiteboard/2018/02/trump-pena-nieto-to-meet-in-the-coming-weeks-633554> to Washington.
 
The reported meeting also comes at a time when Peña Nieto's ruling party candidate continues to lag in early polls ahead of the Mexican presidential election in July. Peña Nieto’s favorability ratings reached an all-time low after he hosted then-candidate Trump in Mexico City in 2016.
 
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