Obama and Mexican President meet in Washington
President elect Barack Obama said Monday that his administration will begin work immediately to strengthen the U.S.-Mexico relationship.
He characterized the existing friendship between the two border nations as strong, but said he believes it can be made stronger. He promised to try to make it so.
A week and a day away from taking over as president, Obama met with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, continuing a longstanding tradition by which new American presidents meet with their Mexican counterparts either before or shortly after they are sworn in.
Emerging from a private lunch at the Mexican Cultural Institute that lasted for 90 minutes, both leaders spoke only in general terms about the substance of their talks.
Obama said they discussed the North American Free Trade Agreement between Canada, Mexico and the United States, border security and immigration. They also talked generally about the Western Hemisphere, he said.
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