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Iran News Mexico seeks greater ties with Iran mullahs Mexico is ready for expanding ties with Iran on all areas, notably in economy and trade, the deputy of Mexico's foreign ministry for economic affairs, Irma Avriana said on Friday. Speaking to the grand seminar on Irano-Mexican economic relations, Avriana said Iran was an important power in the Middle East and" we believe expanding ties with Iran will be in the intersts of every country including Mexcio". Also addressing the audience, the head of Iran's Chamber of Commerce, Alinaghi Khamoushi said Iran enjoyed an economic growth rate of 6.5, adding his...

Mexican Exit Polls: Fox's Party Set Back Monday July 7, 2003 3:59 AM By TRACI CARL Associated Press Writer MEXICO CITY (AP) - Frustrated with President Vicente Fox's failure to deliver on a long list of promises - including getting more attention from the United States - voters on Sunday handed Fox's party setbacks in elections across Mexico. The congressional and gubernatorial elections - the first nationwide vote since Fox defeated the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, three years ago - represented a strong contrast to the euphoria of the 2000 polls. Fox has spent the first half of...

Mexican President Vicente Fox says that, in spite of differences over the war in Iraq, he believes relations with the United States are back on track after meeting with President Bush at the G8 summit in France this past weekend. Mr. Fox wants to make an immigration accord with the United States a priority in upcoming meetings between officials from both countries. The summit in France provided the opportunity for the U.S. and Mexican leaders to meet face-to-face for the first time since before the Iraq war began. Mexico opposed the use of force in Iraq and there was widespread...

<p>The United States plans no retaliation against Mexico for its opposition to the American-led war in Iraq, U.S. Treasurer Rosario Marin said Wednesday.</p> <p>"There is no list in any department or agency of things that we will do against countries" that opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq, she said when questioned by reporters after an appearance in this central Mexican city, 60 miles (100 kilometers) northeast of Mexico City.</p>

WASHINGTON (AP)--The decision against holding a Cinco de Mayo celebration next week at the White House, after having such events the past two years, was not meant as a snub at Mexico for opposing the U.S.-led war with Iraq, a presidential spokesman said Wednesday. The conflict has forced President Bush to curtail many public appearances, said deputy press secretary Scott McClellan. He cited the Easter egg roll earlier this month, which the president did not attend. Cinco de Mayo--in English the fifth of May--celebrates the victory of Mexican soldiers over the French at the 1862 Battle of Puebla. News reports...

US begins payback drive So far the payback campaign is symbolic, but observers worry the tone could worsen in the looming UN debate over the shape of post-war Iraq, and could trigger a trade war. “It's posturing mainly,” said Phyllis Bennis, an analyst at the Washington Institute for Policy Studies. “But the extraordinary thing is, there hasn't been any let-up.” Among members of the UN Security Council, the principle victim of Washington's displeasure has been Chile, which had been about to sign a free trade agreement with the US. The deal had been bundled with a similar pact for Singapore,...

MEXICO CITY -- Seeking to mend ties frayed by his nation's refusal to support the Iraq war, President Vicente Fox said Tuesday that it is time for Mexico and the United States to forget about their past differences and focus on terrorism and other common concerns. "Mexico had a different opinion in the way the possession of weapons of mass destruction or chemical weapons could have been resolved," Fox said of his country's unwillingness to support a U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing the U.S.-led war against Iraq. "But things happened the way they happened," he said at a meeting with...

WASHINGTON President Vicente Fox of Mexico said Wednesday that Mexico's strong opposition to the war in Iraq had caught the Bush administration by surprise, and he acknowledged that ties between the two countries had suffered, though not irreparably. His comment came a day after the U.S. secretary of state, Colin Powell, had assured a Canadian questioner that the United States and Canada had always been "inseparable" and would remain so. But that did not entirely allay concerns in Ottawa, where the cancellation of a planned visit next month by President George W. Bush was seen as a clear sign of...

WASHINGTON -- Congress is unlikely to retaliate with trade or immigration sanctions against Mexico over the neighboring nation's hesitancy to endorse a U.S. military invasion of Iraq, says Utah 3rd District Rep. Chris Cannon, Republican vice chairman of a new U.S.-Mexico congressional caucus.     "The reluctance of support on the war will not largely affect a relationship that is so complex and so deep as this one," Cannon said during a recent news conference to launch the bipartisan caucus aimed at improving business dealings between the two countries.     Rep. David Drier, R-Calif., chairman of the House Rules Committee and...

<p>By Associated Press, 3/17/2003 22:55 MEXICO CITY (AP) President Vicente Fox said Monday he ''regrets'' the Iraq conflict appeared headed for war but insisted that Mexico's opposition to military action would not strain important relations with Washington.</p> <p>''Mexico reiterates its support for the multilateral route to solve conflicts and regrets the path to war,'' Fox said in a statement to the Mexican people broadcast on the presidential channel and carried live on some media outlets.</p>