MEXICO CITY, Aug 20 (Bernama-dpa) -- Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday denied that her government has any agreement with Washington on a bilateral project to dismantle drug cartels, German Press Agency (dpa) reported.
On Monday, the United States (US) Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced a "bold bilateral initiative" with Mexico to fight drug cartels named "Project Portero."
However, Sheinbaum said that Mexico had not been consulted on the matter.
"The DEA issued this statement, we don't know on what basis," Sheinbaum said during her daily press briefing. "We have not reached any agreement, there is no deal between our security institutions and the DEA."
Sheinbaum added that Mexico's Foreign Ministry and the US State Department had been working for months on a security agreement that is "about to be signed."
"This deal is fundamentally based on sovereignty, mutual trust, and territorial respect ... and coordination without subordination," she said, adding that the only other ongoing bilateral security activity was a group of Mexican police officers attending a workshop in Texas.
"That is all there is. There is nothing else," the president continued, adding, "We do not know why they issued this statement."
"The only thing we will always ask for is respect. Always. If you are going to report something related to Mexico that is part of the security issue, we ask that it be done within the framework of the collaboration we have."
-- BERNAMA-dpa
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