Martha Delgado, Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) confirmed that Mexico succeeded in adopting a resolution on cooperation against drug and arms trafficking, a crime that is closely followed by the federal government .
It was during the 65th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs developed by the United Nations (UN) that this idea was shared and supported that it was accepted at this international meeting.
“As part of @SRE's strategy against arms trafficking, at the 65th Session of the @ONU_es Commission on Narcotic Drugs, it succeeded in the adoption of the resolution to strengthen cooperation against the links between illicit drug and arms trafficking,” Bárcenas shared on his Twitter account.
He later published a photo of the session and thanked officials of the Mexican Foreign Service responsible for promoting the message to address this problem that not only afflicts the national government, but also others around the world.
“I am grateful for the work of @ljcampuzano, @iMoralesTenorio and the @EmbaMexAua team: Diego Simancas and Samanta Franco, who promoted the message to place humans at the center of public policies that address the problem of drugs and weapons,” explained the official.
The news was shared by Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón, who said it was “Very relevant to the cause of Mexico” against US arms manufacturers, whom he has blamed and even denounced for their responsibility in the illegal traffic into Mexico.
According to the Mexican government, weapons have generated much of the violence in the country, with 33,308 homicides recorded in 2021, after the two most violent years in its history, under the mandate of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, with 34,690 murder victims in 2019 and 34,554 in 2020.
For this reason, it decided, last August 2021, to sue the 11 large arms companies in the state of Massachusetts (MA), in which Smith & Wesson, Century Arms, Colt's Manufacturing, Glock, Ruger and Barrett, whose .50 caliber sniper rifle is a weapon of war used by drug cartels.
Marcelo Ebrard, on February 1, said he was “optimistic” in the fight against illegal arms trafficking, after he announced that US authorities supported the earlier lawsuit.
Almost seven months after the trial began, the date of the first hearing was finally announced. The SRE reported on the afternoon of this Tuesday, March 15, through a statement, which will be next April 12 virtually.
“Federal Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV, Chief Judge of the Federal Court in Boston, Massachusetts, has set the hearing date to hear the oral arguments of the Government of Mexico and the defendants. The hearing will take place virtually on April 12,” he wrote.
At the hearing, the judge will hear the positions of each party to evaluate them in conjunction with the arguments presented in the initial statement of claim, response and defenses, reply and counter-reply, as well as in the seven briefs of friends of the court, to determine whether the trial can continue to its next stage.
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