López Obrador to meet with Biden in November at Asia-Pacific economic summit

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced on Tuesday that he plans to meet with his U.S. counterpart, President Joe Biden, in November in California. 

López Obrador said that the meeting will take place between November 15 and 17 in San Francisco, California during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) 2023 CEO summit, which brings together business leaders, opinion leaders, and other stakeholders with political leaders from the Asia-Pacific region to discuss the development of the Americas. 

"Thinking about America, in its integral development for the medium and long term, we are going to have a meeting with President Biden, in November. We are going to meet in a meeting of Pacific and Asian countries and he invited me and we are going to have a bilateral meeting. We are going to talk about this issue. This is going to be from November 15 to 17 and I am going to insist," the Mexican president said. 

Lopez Obrador said that during the meeting, he will insist on planning and thinking about the integral development of the Americas to address the migratory phenomenon and violence.

"Accessible financing, cheap credit, and I am also proposing that a plan for the whole of America, a development plan, can be put into practice,” Lopez Obrador said about his objectives for his meeting with Biden.  

"We can support all the countries of Latin America, of the Caribbean; a plan that we can carry out to attend to the people, to face the migratory phenomenon in this way, so that there is justice in all the towns and also to face violence, all that which is of great concern," he said.

The last meeting between Biden and Lopez Obrador took place last January when Mexico hosted the North American Leaders' Summit