Sergio Gutiérrez Luna “categorically” refused to remove visas from Mexican deputies

Sergio Gutiérrez Luna, president of the Board of Directors in the Chamber of Deputies, categorically rejected the statements of the US Congressman Vicente Gonzalez, as well as his request to the secretaries of national security of his country to remove access visas for members of the Mexico-Russia Friendship Group.

Through a statement released through social networks, the Speaker of the House made clear his intentions to continue working together with the government of the northern country, since, according to the text, “the individual request of the legislator does not represent the position of the United States.”

Likewise, the legislator of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) came to the defense of his colleagues by assuring that it is a right of the deputies to be able to participate in Friendship Groups, inter-parliamentary meetings, international organizations, parliamentarians, forums, meetings and ceremonies.

However, Gutiérrez Luna indicated that the Chamber of Deputies “will promote and defend, at all times, the freedom of each of its members to carry out, to the full extent, the legislative and parliamentary tasks conferred on them by the people of Mexico.”

“We welcome the work of all the Mexican MPs who participate in the Friendship Groups with various countries in accordance with our applicable legislation and in favor of brotherhood with all the peoples of the world”, can be read in the text.

Faced with this fact, Miguel Torruco Garza, president of the Mexico-United States Friendship Group, said that he was surprised by Vicente González's proposal to his Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, and to that of National Security, Alejandro Mayorkas.

“Mexico has strongly condemned the invasion of Ukraine. We reject the use of force in all its expressions. The Government of Mexico has made that position clear in the Security Council, the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly. We call a ceasefire, respect the territorial integrity of Ukraine, the protection of its civilians and always reward the peaceful and diplomatic solution,” said the statement by Torruco Garza.

In addition, he considered that the measure of restricting the entry to the US of the deputies who participated in the Mexico-Russia Friendship Group is not commensurate with the respect and sovereignty that has permeated the relationship between the two nations.

“I don't think it's fair and I don't think it rational to want to suspend visas to those who met to express their views regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as some legislators expressed themselves.”

Torruco Garza assured that under the mandate of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and Joe Biden, Mexico and the United States “are going through one of the best moments in their bilateral relationship.”

Some of the legislators referred to by the congressman as “pro-Russian” are: Alberto Anaya, Gerardo Fernández Noroña, Augusto Gómez Villanueva, Armando Contreras, Margarita Garcia, Pedro Daniel Abasolo, Alfredo Porra and Manuel Huerta Martínez, among others.

However, there were others who, with the possible sanction, began to remove themselves from the Friendship Group, such as Karla Ayala Villalobos, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI); Hector Saul Tellez Hernández, of National Action (PAN); and Gerardo Gaudiano Rovirosa, from the Citizen Movement ( MC). For this reason, it is expected that in the next few hours they will resign more.

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