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Dealing with Climate Change Demands Political Agreements: FCH
 Suzanne Stephens Waller - Presidencia de la República
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June 05, 2010
| | President Felipe Calderón presided over the World Environment Day Ceremony in Calakmul, Campeche on Friday. | |
Calakmul, Campeche - As he led the ceremony to mark World Environment Day 2010 in Calakmul, Campeche, President Felipe Calderón declared that climate change is no longer an issue solely for environmentalists, since it constitutes a challenge for mankind, the solution of which requires the search for political and diplomatic agreements.
He explained that Mexico has therefore made a determined effort to achieve the necessary agreements to deal with global warming at COP16, to be held in Cancún at the end of this year.
“We know that this is a challenge for mankind, which is why we are glad to take it up. And we want to be successful. It will be difficult. It will be very complicated. There are many interests and perspectives, but we are doing our best,” he said.
Accompanied by Secretaries of the Environment and Natural Resources, Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada, and Foreign Affairs Patricia Espinosa Cantellano, the Mexican president added:"So it is no longer just an environmental issue for me. It is also a matter of agreements. It is a matter of political and diplomatic negotiations. It is a matter of diplomacy. It is no coincidence that this effort is being led by the United Nations.”
That is why, he explained, I have instructed the Foreign Affairs Secretariat to reach agreements, because, “It is an issue that must be discussed and negotiated government by government, by rich and poor countries, Asian, African and European countries and the United States itself. It is an issue to be negotiated, and on which agreements must be reached. And that is the task we have set ourselves as the host of the Conference of the Parties on Climate Change.”
President Felipe Calderón added that, “Throughout our history, every time Mexicans, rather than understanding each other as a single nation, with a single history and a common interest, for the benefit of its people, every time Mexicans separate, fight and are unable to understand our coincidences, which are greater than any political, religious or party interest, every time Mexicans divide, things turn out badly for us.”
This may happen in wars with other countries that invade us, and in problems that affect us, ranging from the lack of law and order to economic development or poverty.
Thus, he declared, “The lesson for me is this. It is important for Mexicans to be united to combat both poverty and climate change.”
In this respect, he urged Mexicans to unite, adding: “Let us unite for that, to solve our problems and rest assured that we will solve them.”
The President took the opportunity to congratulate the Mexican Football Team on its victory against the Italian team on Thursday, because, “It proved what many Mexicans know, that we can and did.”
He said, “Regardless of what may happen in the championship over the next few weeks, the national team is proving something that Mexicans need to show more often, which is character, determination and an unwillingness to give up or to be overcome buy fatality and criticism and simply to put our hearts into what we do and triumph as they did yesterday.”
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