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(CNN) - Mexican
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will ask US President Joe Biden to share part of the US covid-19 vaccine supply with his neighbor to the south, he said CNN was informed by a Mexican government official informed about the plans for the conversation.
The two leaders will hold a virtual bilateral meeting on Monday.
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What the collaboration might look like - a purchase agreement, a donation, a loan - is not defined, according to the government official.
The first step is to ask if the United States is willing to cooperate, the source said.
In 2012, Joe Biden, then vice president of the United States, and Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who at the time was a presidential candidate, met in Mexico City.
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Mexico has bought supplies of covid-19 vaccines from both Russia and China so far, but has not received any vaccines directly from the US, its most important ally and largest trading partner.
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Pfizer, a US company, has shipped COVID-19 vaccines to Mexico, but they were produced in European laboratories and have arrived in relatively limited supply.
Hugo López-Gatell, in charge of the response against covid-19 in Mexico, in the hospital with a moderate case of coronavirus
Mexico has current purchase agreements for hundreds of millions of vaccine doses with different vaccine manufacturers around the world, the vast majority of which have not yet been met.
As of Sunday night, Mexico reported having administered just under 2.5 million doses of coronavirus vaccines.
López Obrador says he will propose a legal labor immigration program to Biden
The president of Mexico said on Saturday that he will propose to the US president an agreement that allows Mexican workers to legally migrate to the United States.
López Obrador said that the legal labor immigration program is one of the issues he would discuss with Biden in their virtual bilateral meeting on Monday.
"If you don't have a Mexican workforce, how can you guarantee an increase in production in the United States?
That is why we are proposing an agreement, "said López Obrador at an event in the Mexican state of Zacatecas.
"If there are [Mexicans] who want to go to the United States to work, not out of necessity but to find a life elsewhere, they can do so, but legally, through an agreement with the United States Government," said the president speaking. of the initiative that I would propose.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador
