Roh and North’s envoy meet at Mexico City fete
On the third day of his visit here, President Roh Moo-hyun met with local businessmen, toured a South Korean product exhibition, dined with the Mexican president and had a brief, unscheduled encounter with the North Korean envoy to Mexico.
At the dinner on Friday, hosted by Mexico’s President Vicente Fox, Mr. Roh chatted with So Jae-myong, the North Korean ambassador, for a few minutes. Mr. So approached Mr. Roh and his wife to introduce himself. Mr. Roh told Mr. So he hoped North-South Korean relations would improve, and Mr. So said he and Seoul’s ambassador to Mexico, Cho Kyu-hyung, were in frequent contact.
“It is customary for the host country to invite diplomats to a presidential dinner, but I have never seen a North Korean ambassador attend a function for a South Korean president,” Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon said later.
At his meeting with Mexican businessmen, Mr. Roh emphasized the importance of the Mexican market to Korea, calling it a bridgehead to other markets in Central and South America. South Korea had a $2.6-billion surplus last year in bilateral trade with Mexico.
Mr. Roh promised to expand trade ties and investment in a broad range of industries. He signed six new bilateral agreements with Mexico, including pacts on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters and cooperation in digital broadcasting technology.
But Mr. Roh was not the Korean some Mexican women wanted to see. On Sunday, about 30 of them demonstrated outside his hotel, asking him to arrange for a visit to Mexico of Jang Dong-keon, a movie star popular there. “I’ll see what I can do,” Mr. Roh said as his car sped away.
The president was scheduled to leave early Monday morning for Costa Rica.
Source: joongangdaily.joins.com
MEXICO RUNNERS PLACE WELL AT STATE MEET
The Mexico cross country teams concluded their seasons by racing in the Class A state championships on Saturday at Queensbury High School in Section II.
Freshman Evan Oustrich, who was an individual qualifier for the meet, was the second-place runner for Section III as he ran a personal-best five-kilometer time of 17:23. He finished in 54th place overall in the Class A race.
The young Mexico girls team had a strong effort in the Class A race, finishing ninth overall.
Finishers for the Tigers were Courtney Ross (20:43, 62nd place), Ashlie Wilson (20:46, 63rd), Rachel Garrett
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Exports of U.S. Pork to Mexico in 2004 grew 65 percent by volume and 92 percent in value from 2003. Mexico was one of the key markets enabling U.S. Pork exports to set
Mexico Min To Skip Mercosur Summit; Seeks Membership-Envoy
Mexico's foreign minister will not attend this week's summit of Mercosur nations as originally planned, although the nation remains interested in gaining an associate membership in South America's main trade block, the Mexican ambassador said Wednesday.
"Minister (Luis Ernesto) Derbez has an important meeting about Central American integration at the same time," Mexico's ambassador to Uruguay, Perla Carvahlo, told Dow Jones Newswires. Derbez said at a news conference on Nov. 24 that he planned to attend this week's Mercosur meeting in Montevideo.
Asked if Derbez's absence signals a waning of Mexican interest
Auckland Up Against Mexico
The Auckland City football club will meet Mexicos Club America in the first round of the FIFA Club World Cup in Japan in December.
Auckland, who won the Oceania Nations Cup, will have to get past the Concacaf champions to meet European champions Barcelona in the semi-finals.
Barcelona have been seeded into the semifinals along with the yet to be determined South American champions.
If Auckland City is beaten by Club America they will play the loser of the quarterfinal between the yet to be determined Asian and African champions.
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President Roh Set to Depart for Mexico
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President Roh will spend Sunday and Monday in Costa Rice, meeting with President
Mexico's Ambassador Visits Utah
Local Business Leaders Hope To Have Dialogue On Immigration Issues
SALT LAKE CITY Some Utah business leaders hope the visit by Mexico's ambassador to the US will spark some dialogue on immigration issues.
Ambassador Carlos de Icaza is expected to meet with business leaders at a luncheon on Thursday. Friday, the ambassador will meet privately with the Governor and legislative leadership.
Joe Reyna, chairman-elect of the Utah Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, says Icaza's visit is likely a prelude to a visit by Mexican President Vicente Fox. He says when an ambassador from a country like Mexico comes to
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As the Governor's motorcade pulled in front of the building for the meeting, he heard from protesters who drove from San Diego to express their opposition to the Schwarzenegger administration's immigration policies.
Gov. Schwarzenegger was in Mexicali to talk about border issues as well as trade and the economy.
"He said he wouldn't take money from special interests," protester Vicente Rodriguez told CNN. "Yet his has raised more money than the two
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Puebla City is located in the valley of the same name, surrounded by volcanoes and snow-capped mountains, just over 110 km south-east of Mexico City. It has
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U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza upset Mexico this week by boasting he had shut a consular office in a border city to "punish" the country for failing to halt a drug war there.
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