By Eliane Portillo

Mexico’s priorities for the Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (G20) presidency are to promote structural reforms to generate economic growth and structural reforms to increase employment rates.

Roberto Marino, a special representative of the international organization’s Mexican presidency, in a press release from the Foreign Affairs Secretariat (SRE), said Tuesday that Mexico will also seek to strengthen financial systems around the globe and to offer food security programs, the aim of which is to combat price volatility in raw materials.

During his participation in the 23rd Ordinary Session of the Representative Commission of the African Union, in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, Marino said that Mexico will also promote sustainable development, the implementation of green technologies and finding viable solutions to climate change.

The ordinary session was part of an agenda the G20 has organized to engage in dialog with countries like Tunisia and Ethiopia. Marino held a meeting with the president of the African Development Bank, Donal Kaberuka, and will visit the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, Abdoulie Janneh, as well other functionaries from several international organizations.

Mexico’s leadership of the G20 is important because the nation is now in charge of deciding the policies that will be implemented to engage in cooperation with non-member countries and cooperation programs with international and regional groups. Mexico’s job will be to make an effort to collect proposals from all parts of the world in terms of global problems and study them for the benefit of the G20’s work agenda.