Fox: "Mexico Doesn't Fear U.S...."

The Guardian ^ | Wes, March 05,2003

[yankeedame]

Fox: Mexico Doesn't Fear U.S. Reprisal

Wednesday March 5, 2003

MEXICO CITY (AP) - President Vicente Fox said Tuesday Mexico isn't worried abut the United States' reprisal if it doesn't back a resolution supporting war with Iraq, and said Mexico would not accept any unilateral U.S. action to disarm Iraq.

Also Tuesday, officials confirmed that Mexico's foreign secretary had tried to revive a Canadian compromise proposal on the conflict in a Saturday meeting with Secretary of State Colin Powell.

Mexico, a member of the U.N. Security Council, is one of several nations that has declined to say how it would vote on a U.S.-backed resolution paving the way for war with Iraq.

Mexicans largely oppose military action against Iraq, and Fox doesn't want to offend voters before crucial congressional elections this summer. Some Mexicans, however, fear a vote against their powerful northern neighbor would anger the United States, the destination for more than 85 percent of Mexican exports.

Recent statements by Fox stressing the need to disarm Saddam Hussein appeared to indicate Mexico was edging closer to the U.S. position.

But on Tuesday Fox told a meeting of businessmen in the central state of Aguascalientes: ``We are not going to accept any unilateral decisions.''

``We say 'No war, yes to peace,''' Fox told the crowd. ``Imagine what kind of world we would have if everybody took unilateral decisions about starting a war.''

Fox also said Mexico shouldn't fear retaliation from the United States if it stuck to its pro-peace stance.

``We are in an almost daily dialogue, they know our position and we're convinced there won't be any reprisals.''

British officials met with their Mexican counterparts Friday and Saturday in Mexico in a bid to sway undecided Security Council nations.

Powell and Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez spoke by telephone on Monday and met Saturday at Powell's home in the Virginia suburbs, Foreign Relations Department spokesman Allan Nahum said.

Nahum said Derbez asked Powell about a compromise plan of the type proposed by Canada - a sign that Mexico is looking for a way to please both sides. The Canadian proposal would set a series of benchmarks Iraq would have to meet by the end of the month.

[FenianOfEire]

You could say all of the above... You don't want American sovereignty to get in the way, now do you? Bush is a globalist just like his Father, and just like Clinton. However, like I said, Conservatives don't like to hear that Bush is a Trojan Horse. While they stare over the trenches to the left, the right is sacking the town... Watch my Left Hand, Watch my Left Hand...SLAP.

And if X42 get's Kofi Annans slot, then we have the best of both worlds...without the sovereignty of course.

[FenianOfEire]

"A house divided against itself cannot stand." A great man said that once.