Welcomed the president of mexico to the white house to sign a joint declaration in the white rose garden. About tradee relations under the u. S. Mexico agreement and the coronavirus pandemic. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States, and the president of the united execute states. Mexican states. Trump thank you very much. Itice, hot day, to put mildly. We will make this quick, but it is all very positive. It is my tremendous pleasure to welcome everyone to the white house, my good friend president Lopez Labrador of mexico. We have at an outstanding relationship. We are moved that you have to make your first foreign visit since taking office, successfully taking office, i might add, to be with us at the white house. The relationship between a night of states and mexico has never been closer than it has been right now. People were betting against that. It is never been stronger, closer. We are doing a tremendous job together. We are cherished partners and neighbors. Our cooperation is founded on mutual trust and respect between the two of us and our two countries, and we honor the great dignity of both nations. We have thesit, opportunity to strengthen the bond we have forged since his impressive election victory more ago, a victory that the Vice President and ivanka joined in in swearing in. Was exciting. Each of us was elected on a fight corruption and put the interests of our countrys first. He do that and i do that, mr. President. To thetinction goes back early days of our nation and in particular it includes abraham the natond president war is. They held each other in high esteem. They were great friends and did great things together. There grateful this morning president laid a wreath at the our nationse in capital. That was a beautiful ceremony. Our countries are linked by trade and travel, history and culture, faith and family. They had states home to 36 million american citizens. Citizens are hardworking, incredible people, great businessmen and women, and make up a big percentage of our Small Business owners and very successful. Toughre like you, negotiators, and great business people. President sngside lopez obrador, we are taking this relationship to new heights and creating a powerful Partnership Together we have addressed the complex issues facing our two countries. That went unresolved for many years. Friendly, far too long. It should have been resolved long before i got here. We are achieving Great Strides and remarkable breakthroughs and strengthening our relationship for decades to come. With everything we have accomplished, the potential for the future of the United States and mexico is unlimited. Far greater situation for both countries than anyone thought possible. Today, we celebrate the historic victory we achieved together just days ago when nafta was officially terminated. One of the worst trade deals in history. And replaced with a brandnew beautiful usmca. We want to thank canada, also. I spoke to and will be speaking to the Prime Minister in a little while. Nafta wages and eliminated jobs, the usmca includes groundbreaking sections for workers in both nations. This agreement will bring countless jobs from overseas back to north america and our countries, we are very big beneficiaries. We are already seeing the fruits. It is the largest, fairest, and most advanced trade deal by any country and it will bring enormous prosperity to american and mexican workers and canada, we want to thank everybody. We will have a separate they with canada. They are coming down at the appropriate time. We want to congratulate the people of canada and the Prime Minister. This has been a tremendous achievement. It is the largest trade deal ever made and we made a big one with china but this is the biggest one ever made. Our two governments are also in cooperation to stop the illicit flow of drugs, guns, cash, and contraband and stopping humid trafficking. We are forging critical partnerships across the witness this western hemisphere. To ensure safe, humane, and lawful migration. We have been helped greatly by mexico on creating record numbers in a positive sense on the southern border. It has been very tight and we have done a great job and i want to thank the secretary who is here. Chad, you are here someplace. What a good job you are doing. We are very proud of you and you have worked closely with mexico. You were just telling me what a great help a have been, thank you very much created we have also worked closely in the battle against the coronavirus together saving thousands of lives. It has been my honor to help mexico procure 600 ventilators and its going to be higher than that. They needed them badly and we were able to make them. We are making thousands per week and we are helping a lot of countries. One of the first and may be first that i spoke to was mexico. We have a lot of them in mexico saving a lot of lives. Mr. President , we are in this fight together and we are doing very well. Just a couple of things on that, proud to announce that the u. S. Is number one in testing in the world. The mortality rate is the lowest or just about the lowest of any nation anywhere in the world. We are safely reopening our country and very importantly, we are safely reopening our schools. We want the schools to be reopened and going. In the fall, most of them are looking at it that way. We are finding out that learning by computer is not as good as learning in the computer or on the campus and your finding that too. You want to learn in the classroom, we want our schools open in the fall. Following president Lopez Obradors remarks, we will sign a joint declaration committing ourselves to a shared future of prosperity, security and harmony. This is truly a proud moment in history for both of our nations. Mexico and the United States. We pledge the close and continued friendship between the United States and mexico and we accelerate our progress toward a greater tomorrow. That is whats happening, a for greater tomorrow. With a prospering region, flourishing hemisphere, and to nations thriving, growing, and excelling sidebyside working together that is what we have been doing. We look forward to hosting you for a beautiful dinner later on this evening with some of your friends from mexico and some of our great friends in the u. S. It is an honor to have you with us and we would love to have you say a few words. Thank you very much. Friends, ladies and gentlemen, i truly celebrate this meeting with you. President trump. My visit to a great extent has to do with the importance right now in these times of World Economic crisis the importance of entering into effect of the mexico u. S. Canada agreement or usmca. Having been able to close this deal, constitutes a great accomplishment benefiting all three nations and our peoples. As we are known, north america is one of the most important economic regions of the planet. However, a region is unexpectedly a region of trade deficits. We export to the rest of the world about 3. 6 trillion but we import about 4. 2 trillion. That is, we have a deficit of 611 billion, which is translated into capital flight, less opportunities for companies and businesses, and job sourced losses. This new agreement seeks to reverse this in balance through greater integration of our economies and improvements in the functioning of productive change to recover the economic presence that north america has lost in the last five decades. To say that in 1970, the region constituted 40. 4 of the world gdp. Now, the share in the Global Economy has gone down to 27. 8 . That is why this agreement is a great option to produce, create jobs, and foster trade without having to go so far away from our homes, cities, states and nations. In other words, import volumes of our countries, imports to the rest of the world may be produced in north america at a lower transportation costs with reliable suppliers, reliable visavis the companies of course and the utilization of Regional Labor force. Of course, it is not a matter of closing our countries to the world. It is a matter of taking advantage of all of the advantages that we had because we are neighbors as well as the enforcement of a good policy of cooperation for development. This agreement allows us to subtract investments from other places of the hemisphere, bringing those investments to our countries. Provided we comply, we honor the principles of producing merchandise with high regional content. And also trying to have salary and Labor Conditions that are fair conditions for our workers of the exporting or importing countries of consumption goods. It is also important to point out that this agreement signifies the integration of all three countries. We are all contributing with productive capacity, markets, technology, experience, expertise, highly Skilled Labor force, and we end up complementing each other for instance, mexico has something that is extremely valuable. To make this economic integration effective and to boost this integration economic and commercial integration in the nation. I am talking about this young, creative, responsible workforce. Let us not forget that the participation of workers is just as important as the role of businesses and companies. It would be not good for us to have capital and technology if we dont have good workers that are outstanding workers because of their imagination their talent when they do their work. On the other hand, with this type of agreement and respecting our sovereign states, instead of distancing ourselves, we are deciding we are opting to Work Together toward the future. We want understanding. That is what we are united and we are setting aside differences or we are solving those differences through a dialogue and mutual respect. Certainly, in the history of our relations, we had perhaps moments in which our minds have not been together and there have been problems that are not yet forgotten. However, we have been able to establish explicit agreements of cooperation and coexistence. For instance, in the 40s of the last century during the second world war, mexico helped meet the needs of the United States in terms of the Raw Materials needed by the United States and it gave its support with the labor of Migrant Workers that were known as the [indiscernible] since then and until now, we have been consolidating our economic, commercial, trade relationship as well as our very peculiar coexistence cohabitation. Sometimes as distant neighbors, and other times as very affectionate and close friends. It is also wellknown history, politics this neighborhood that we have and economic circumstances of both of our nations have promoted a process of migration of mexican men and women coming here to the United States and here, we have been able to create a community of about 38 Million People including the children of mexican parents. It is a community of good working people, good working people who have come here to make a living in a very honest fashion and they have so much contributed. Furthermore in mexico, more than in any other country of the world, in our society, we have 1. 5 million u. S. Citizens. They lived there and they are part of our society. We are not just united by geographic proximity, we have economic, commercial, social, ties of friendship President Trump. As in the best times of our political relationship, during my mandate as president of mexico, is that of remembering [indiscernible] those who think like that against may we have received from you understanding and respect. Some people thought that our ideological differences would inevitably lead to confrontations. Fortunately, this has not been the case. I believe that toward the future, there will be no motive or need to break our very good political relationship or the friendship between our two administrations. The best president mexico has ever had had a good understanding a great republican president abraham lincoln. Let us remember that this great historic leader of the United States, who was the promoter of the abolition of slavery, never recognized Emperor Maximilian imposed in mexico through the intervention of the powerful french army. It is no coincidence that warez lamented lincolns murder in the United States saying i have deeply felt this disgrace because lincoln, who was constantly working in such a determined manner for the treatment of the fellow man was worthy of a better fortune or look. The same happened with the splendid relationship that president Franklin Roosevelt had with our president. The same situation took place and after the oil appropriation, and a letter, the general recognized the good understanding, the good bilateral understanding. He said my administration believes that the attitude of the United States of america in the case of the Oil Companies appropriation reasserts once more the sovereignty of peoples of this continent that with so much effort have been maintaining and the situation and the position of his excellency mr. President roosevelt. With all the circumstances with different circumstances, history tells us that it is possible to understand each other without arrogance or now that i have decided to come to this meeting with you, President Trump, we had a good debate in my country on the convenience of this trip. I decided to come because it is very important for us to be launching this new agreement. I also wanted to be here to thank the people of the United States, its government, and thank you President Trump for being increasingly respectful with our mexican fellowmen. And the you, President Trump, i want to thank you for your understanding and the help you have given us in issues related to trade, commerce, oil, as well as your personal support for the acquisition of medical equipment that we needed urgently to treat our patients of covid19. What i really appreciate is that you have never sought to impose anything on us violating our sovereignty. Instead of the munro doctrine, you have followed the wise advice of George Washington who said nations should not take advantage of the unfortunate condition of other peoples. You have not tried to treat us as a colony. On the contrary, you have honored our condition as an independent nation. That is why i am here. To express to the people of the United States that their president has behaved with us with kindness and respect. You have treated us just as what we are, a country and a dignified people, a free, democratic, and sovereign people. Long live the friendship of our two nations. Long live the United States of america. Long live canada. Long live our america. Long live mexico. Long live mexico. Viva mexico. [applause] [applause] [applause] pres. Trump thank you very much, everyone. [shouting] here is a look at our live coverage thursday. At 1 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan, defense secretary mark esper and joint chiefs of staff chairman mark milley testify about Defense Department authorities related to civilian lawenforcement. 5 00 p. M. , our campaign 2020 coverage includes joe biden and massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren discussing the reopening of schools amid the coronavirus pandemic. On cspan2 at 10 00 a. M. Eastern, the House AppropriationsCommittee Considers legislation that sets 2021 spending levels for the state department, foreign operations, agriculture, and military construction. Coming up on washington journal, author and syndicated columnist cal thomas talks about President Trumps reelection campaign. 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