The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, indicated this Monday that they are in communication with the embassies of the Middle Eastern countries to contact the 1,400 Mexicans who live there and are now in the middle of the war between Israel and Iran.
“Yes, we already have communication with all our embassies,” said the president during his morning conference.
The Mexican president stated that he will ask that this Monday the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Alicia Bárcena, inform the relatives of the compatriots who are in that region of the situation, although he emphasized that everyone is fine.
“They report to us that everyone is fine and we are waiting,” he said.
He also specified that at least 1,400 Mexicans are in the different countries of the region.
Hours earlier, the president of Mexico asked Israel not to respond to Iran’s aggression to prevent the conflict from escalating, in addition to urging the United Nations to be more active in the crisis.
Iran launched an attack with hundreds of drones and ballistic missiles against Israel on Saturday in retaliation for the bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus on April 1, in which seven members of the Revolutionary Guard and six Syrian citizens died.
Some of these drones were intercepted in Jordan and Israel.
Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden met with his National Security Council at the White House to monitor the situation and assured that he is supporting Israel to repel the attack.
Several countries in the region, including Israel, have closed their airspace and the Tel Aviv Government has urgently convened the War Cabinet in response to the ongoing attack.
The Government of Iran invoked, through its mission to the UN, article 51 of the United Nations charter to justify its attack against Israel, which it considers “legitimate defense.”
