MEXICO CITY, June 6 (Reuters) - The Mexican president ruled out attending the Summit of the Americas to be held this week in the United States, because Washington excluded Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela from its guest list, but he anticipated that he plans to visit his colleague Joe Biden next month.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who had alreadyannounced his position on the appointment weeks ago to be held in Los Angeles, he said in his morning press conference on Monday that he will send Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard as his representative.
The president also reported that in July he plans to go to the White House to meet with Biden, reiterating that he maintains a good relationship with his colleague, about whom he mentioned that he is being heavily pressured by the Republicans and by the influential community of Cubans in Florida.
HeThe US government decided to exclude those from Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela from the summit despite threats from López Obrador not to attend unless all countries in the Western Hemisphere were invited.
"I am not going to the summit because not all the countries of America are invited, and I believe in the need to change the policy that has been imposed for centuries, exclusion, wanting to dominate for no reason, not respecting the sovereignty of the countries," he said in his press conference.
(Report by Ana Isabel Martínez, additional report by Raúl Cortés)
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