Mexico’s Foreign Minister, Marcelo Ebrard, has asked this past Friday all its ambassadors to take advantage of «any space» to demand that the United States and Europe do their part to curb arms trafficking to the country.
«So: arms control, which is the co-responsibility of the countries that produce, sell and distribute them. Enough of talking about the problems, the effects, but not the causes because they irritate us,» he warned during a meeting with the diplomatic corps.
Ebrard highlighted the priority nature of this issue, essential to reduce the root of the problem of violence in the country.
«Can violence in Mexico be reduced if we do nothing about guns? No. Why not? Because there is a universal principle, the greater the availability of weapons, the greater the violence,» he said, in statements reported by Reforma.
Ebrard explained that the diplomatic corps will use as an example the recent operation to arrest drug trafficker Ovidio Guzmán in Culiacán, Sinaloa; an operation where 65 percent of the weapons seized came from the United States, and the rest from Europe.
Likewise, the Minister announced that the Attorney General’s Office will soon draw up a map of the origin of the weapons and their companies, which it wants to use as evidence before the United States.
«We need to find out where these weapons were bought, who bought them and how they arrived in Mexico. That may take us a couple of months, but we are going to investigate and Mexico will present the case in the United States,» he added.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
