| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | March 2009 
President Calderón Leads Commemorative Ceremony of 103rd Anniversary of Benito Juarez' Birth
 Presidencia de la República
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 |  | Among individuals, as among nations, respect for others' rights is peace, which is the basic premise of our foreign policy.
- Patricia Espinosa Cantellano |  | | |
Mexico, D.F. - As he led the commemorative events for the 103rd Anniversary of the Birth of the Hero of the Americas, President Felipe Calderón mounted a Guard of Honor and laid a floral wreath at the Hemicycle to Benito Juárez and presided over the ceremony held in the National Palace.
At the Hemicycle to Benito Juárez, the President signed the Book of Distinguished Visitors in which he wrote the following:
“In memory of and with thanks to the Hero of the Americas, on behalf of the people and government of Mexico. Felipe Calderón. President of Mexico.”
Later on, at the National palace, he led the Commemorative Ceremony of the Birth of former President Benito Juárez, at the end of which he toured the rooms where the hero of the Americas spent his last days, the place where his bedroom has been preserved and some of the objects he used during his administration.
At the same time, as the official speaker at the ceremony, Secretary of Foreign Affairs Patricia Espinosa Cantellano said that the ideals of peace and freedom, security and democracy, education and justice, promoted by the Hero of the Americas, "Continue to be the model against which we measure both our successes and what remains to be done."
She added that Mexicans never forget that, "Among individuals, as among nations, respect for others' rights is peace."
This phrase, she said, is a lesson for life and a principle of coexistence. “The basic premise of our foreign policy and all our international action is precisely that: respect for other’s rights, which entails the demand that others respect our laws."
President Juárez and his generation also gave bequeathed us the fundamental idea that any government derives its authority from its respect for the law and its decision and capacity to enforce it.
She said that nowadays, once of the greatest challenges we face in Mexico are criminal organizations, which are often in fact transnational.
A propos of that, she said that President Felipe Calderón is leading a tireless struggle against them, designed to force its members to submit to the rule of law and to bring them before justice, without exception. “Mexicans’ justified demands for security will not go unheard,” she said.
She added that government has assumed its historic responsibility and is combating this sourge, which has damaged the population for years, in a determined fashion. That is why, she said, with the force of the law and an effective, determined diplomacy, we will insist on joint responsibility to cope with this enormous demand. |
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