Mexico Declines Full Membership in Trump’s Gaza Ceasefire Board
“Given that we recognize Palestine as a state, it’s important that both states, Israel and Palestine, participate. It isn’t set up that way,” she explained during a press briefing.
Sheinbaum added that Mexico would instead designate its ambassador to the United Nations as an observer.
“They invited us to attend as observers; if we were not going to participate, then to attend as observers. And together with the foreign minister, we decided that our ambassador to the United Nations would attend as an observer,” she said.
Her statements came ahead of the board’s first assembly scheduled for Thursday in Washington, DC.
The president has consistently voiced support for Palestine, labeling Israel’s continuing assaults on the Gaza Strip and its people as genocide, and advocating for a two-state resolution to the conflict.
Even though the United States has supplied at least $21.7 billion in military assistance to Israel since the onset of the Israeli-Hamas conflict on Oct. 7, 2023—which has resulted in the deaths of over 71,000 Palestinians—former President Trump announced the creation of a US-led entity intended to reestablish peace in the region.
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