President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will deliver a speech at the United Nations in New York on November 9, as Mexico assumes the presidency of the U.N. Security Council.
López Obrador will be making only his second visit outside of Mexico since assuming the presidency in December 2018. He visited Washington D.C. in July 2020, when he met with Donald Trump prior to the signing of the revamped NAFTA accord, renamed as T-MEC in Mexico and USMCA in the United States.
López Obrador said his speech at the United Nations will focus on what he considers “the main problem” in the world: “the corruption that produces inequality.”
In June 2020, the United Nations General Assembly elected Mexico as a non-permanent member of the U.N. Security Council for the period 2021-2023. Mexico has previously held a non-permanent seat on the council on four other occasions, the last time between 2009 and 2010.
López Obrador said he would not be meeting with Joe Biden during his November trip, but added that he has invited the U.S. president to visit Mexico in the near future.