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Foreign minister leads first ex-ministers council after Bachelet support withdrawal
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Chile's Foreign Minister Francisco Pérez Mackenna held his first meeting with former foreign ministers on Friday following the government's withdrawal of support for Michelle Bachelet's UN Secretary-General candidacy. The session focused on Chile's foreign policy challenges amid prior objections from attendees. Pérez Mackenna described the dialogue as "very positive".
Building on the UN Committee against Enforced Disappearances (CED) report urging global support for Mexico's crisis, the government issued a joint statement from the Foreign Relations (SRE) and Interior (Segob) ministries on Thursday, rejecting it as 'biased' and lacking rigor. Officials highlighted overlooked recent efforts and accused the report of focusing on pre-2018 events.
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The UN Committee against Enforced Disappearances requested support measures for Mexico to tackle disappearances that could be deemed crimes against humanity. Mexico's Foreign Relations Secretariat rejected the report as biased and for overlooking government progress. The committee points to over 6,200 bodies in clandestine graves as proof of the crisis.