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Mexico announces high-level meetings with Trump team

by Rafael Bernal - 01/20/17 11:10 AM ET

Two top Mexican cabinet officials will visit Washington next week to meet top Trump White House officials, the country’s Secretariat of Foreign Relations announced Thursday.

The Mexican secretaries of Foreign Relations, Luis Videgaray, and the Economy, Ildefonso Guajardo, will meet incoming White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, senior adviser Jared Kushner, senior counselor Stephen Bannon, chief economic adviser Gary Cohn, trade adviser Peter Navarro and national security adviser Michael Flynn.

The meetings will take place Jan. 25 and 26.

{mosads}Videgaray was recently appointed to the top foreign affairs role, months after losing the powerful Finance secretary position for his alleged role in President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign visit to Mexico City.

Various reports said the visit was made possible through a mutual friend of Videgaray and Kushner.

Trump has said that renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is among his first priorities as president.

Guajardo was one of the original negotiators of NAFTA.

The Foreign Relations Secretariat said in the statement that the Mexican dignitaries would also meet with Trump Cabinet secretaries, “as long as they have by then been confirmed by the Senate of the United States.”

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