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The Secretary of State of the United States, Colin Powell, affirmed that integral a migratory reform is a "high priority" for president George W. Bush, that maintains its commitment to work close by with the congressmen of its country in order obtaining that goal.
Nevertheless, he did not speak of a migratory agreement like which he looks for the Mexican government, but who talked about only to that the Bush administration "wants to advance towards the program of temporary workers".
Also, the estadunidense civil employee emphasized that "innovating efforts" are required to improve the border security between both nations and with it to close the passage to the terrorism, traffic of undocumented people and drug trafficking to him.
It, for "stopping to that they could abuse the opening of our societies and the great dimension of our border to damage to our citizens through the human being or drug traffic, or committing terrorism acts", established.
In the inaugural act of XXI the Binational Meeting United Me'xico-Estados, it maintained that the challenge for both States is to work to make of North America one more a more competitive region globally.
"We must begin the work for the morning, toiling together today to increase the opportunities economic and to overcome the common threats", said.
In that sense, the estadunidense civil employee referred that Mexico has become the second greater commercial partner of the United States, where more of a million people crosses to newspaper the common border.
He said that more than ten million of Mexican they live or they work in the United States, but recognized that many lack a legal status.
He remembered that at the beginning of 2003, president Bush proposed a program of temporary work to unite to foreigners with estadunidenses employers and to offer a legal status to the immigrants who contribute to the economy of that nation while they work to maintain to his families.
It indicated now that the bilateral relation subsequent to is in the period the 11 of September, "and that we make a better work to protect our borders and that (Bush) were reelecto for a second mandate and we have a new Congress, I believe that the conditions have improved significantly for this type of reform (the migratory integral)".
President Bush, said, "maintains his commitment around integral a migratory reform, like a high priority in his second period in the presidency, and will close by work with the congressmen reaching this goal", emphasized.
Powell assured that the administrations of presidents Bush and Vicente Fox are creating the conditions for working jointly to improve the education and infrastructure in both sides of the border to satisfy the necessities with people and the commerce.
It was also pronounced to look for the mechanisms that facilitate the opening of new companies in both nations, and referred that in the last decade the relation has been transcendental and is outstanding by visionary initiatives as the Free Trade Agreement.
It exposed that the four years of the first period of Bush have been particularly productive, since the cooperation as far as the application of the law has been deepened, in special in the antinarcotic subject of the combat.
Regarding the indicated thing by the secretary of Energy, Fernando Elizondo, in the sense that the Armed Forces of the United States would watch the oil platforms of Mexico, Powell clarified that that task corresponds only to Mexico.
"Obvious we are in contact with the enemy on some potential threat, but these are sovereign responsibilities and the United States of no form is going to take part in the sovereignty of the Mexican government in this aspect", said.
On the other hand, it commented that they have intensified and expanded the efforts against the terrorism and in favor of the border security, in addition to which the alliance public-private that presidents Fox and Bush sent, well-known as the "Society for the Prosperity" already is creating important opportunities at Mexico.
Powell said that another example of the productive thing of the bilateral relation is the fact that during the last year, the Corporation for the Investment Deprived in the Outside is had it jeopardize to give more than 40 million dollars to finance small estadunidenses companies that operate in Mexico, "and we anticipated that it will provide hundreds with million more in the next months".

Llama Derbez to reinforce the dialogue
The secretary of Outer Relations, Luis Ernesto Derbez, ratified the vocation of the Mexican government to take advantage of the present conjuncture and to construct the bridges between Mexico and the United States, in order that the economic migration, security and interchanges are constituted like strength for both nations.
When inaugurating the works of XXI the Binational meeting United Me'xico-Estados, Derbez emphasized the importance of creating conditions for a permanent bilateral dialogue, that extends particular conjunctures and generate the certainty level that demands a relation between countries united by geography.
The intensity, complexity and dynamism of the correlation between both States, added, demand a mutual permanent effort to maintain the dialogue channels open.
"an agenda with so diverse subjects that a depth level of and specialization without precedents, demand of the federal governments are approached at to guarantee a suitable coordination, and mainly, the establishment of lines of work that allows us to journey towards the future, taking advantage of the opportunities which it offers our shared border us", indicated.
In the presence of the estadunidense delegation headed by Colin Powell, Derbez asserted that Mexico and EU have drawn for a scene that threatened inhibiting the political interchanges, economic, social and cultural that forced them to the creation of new surroundings.
"This it has been characterized by a greater maturity in our dialogue and by the certainty of which we counted on the elements sufficient and the required confidence to surpass any obstacle", it considered.

The border with Mexico, attractive potential for the crossing of terrorists, maintains Ridge
The secretary of Internal Security, Tom Ridge, assured that if the next government of Mexico is of left, the United States will not have disadvantage in dealing and negotiating with him, as long as he has been elect democratically.
Within two years, he commented, "independently of philosophy of candidate victorious, if is government chosen democratically we go to follow with process and to be honest, because it is a process which already we began and we are going to work with that administration, without mattering whom he is".
The estadunidense civil employee and the secretary of Interior, Santiago Creel Miranda, presented the results the binational meeting in the scope of their competition.
They insisted on the subjects of the combat to the terrorism, the transit in the border and the migratory agreement that could ventilate the next year with the new members of the North American Congress.
Tom Ridge assured that the border with Mexico is an attractive potential for the crossing of terrorists or arms towards the United States.
It assured, in addition, that To the similar Qaeda and organizations "they have said that its primary target has been and will be the United States, his citizens and I interest, or within our borders or in any other place of the world, including Mexico like potential place".
It clarified that in Mexico there are at the moment no direct threats on the structures and the individuals of the United States --un million lives in Aztec territory --, reason why thanked for to president Fox and Creel secretary who "have taken their own initiative and effort to protect these North American interests".
In press conference, Tom Ridge and Santiago Creel mentioned the successful exchange of information of intelligence that has done possible to preserve the earth security, sea and airports of both nations, particularly in the Gulf of Mexico.
"We trusted our coastal guards to assure the assets the United States, and also we are going to trust our colleagues so that they assure his own assets", he indicated Ridge.
On the other hand, Creel Miranda took advantage of the occasion to deny that foreign and North American elements exist guarding strategic facilities. "This is not certain", indicated.
It commented, also, which thanks to that exchange of information have been results in the combat to the organized crime, fundamentally to the drug trafficking.
"We are in a new stage in the relation with the agencies of intelligence of the countries friends, democratic, in where we are constructing a confidence base that before was not had".
Tom Ridge abounded: "One of the successes that we have had with the work group of the border has been the capacity to identify the type of information that we needed to share [ Fernando Ortega Pizarro ]