Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed Thursday that during her trip to Washington, where she will participate in the draw for the 2026 World Cup, she will have a “small meeting” with U.S. President Donald Trump, the first face-to-face meeting in person between the two leaders.
“We are going to have a small meeting with President Trump, and another with Prime Minister (Mark) Carney,” the president said during her morning press conference, although she did not give further details on the issues to be addressed during the meeting.
Sheinbaum travels to Washington
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Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed that she will travel this Thursday night to Washington, D.C., in a plane of the Secretariat of National Defense.
Due to time constraints I could not use commercial airlines.
He also stated that the meeting with Trump and Carney will take place moments before the draw for the World Cup, of which Mexico, the United States and Canada are co-hosts.
“Then, the event that lasts about four minutes, the drawing of the little ball and seeing what, I think it is, what group we are going to lead as Mexico.”
“And then we go to our seats and that’s the end of how all the World Cup groups are formed, that’s the end of the event,” he said.
As host countries, Mexico, the United States and Canada have already been assigned the group from which they will be seeded in the draw for the 2026 World Cup.
Mexico to head Group A
FIFA has determined that Mexico will head Group A and has also been assigned the opening match of the 2026 World Cup on Thursday, June 11, 2026 at the Azteca Stadium.
Canada leads Group C, while the United States, which will play the majority of the games in the tournament, will head Group D.
The draw will mark one of the most important milestones prior to the 2026 World Cup, which Mexico is co-hosting with the United States and Canada, and which will be hosted in Mexico by Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey.
The ceremony, where the future of the 48 national teams that will participate in the sporting event will be revealed, is scheduled to take place on December 5 and the following day the schedule of matches and the stadiums where they will be played will be announced.
Will meet with migrants in the U.S.
Claudia Sheinbaum said that after her participation in the raffle, she will have a meeting with Mexicans living in the United States.
And, on Friday night, he will return to Mexico City to lead the celebration of the anniversary of the beginning of the government of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) in the capital’s Zócalo on Saturday.
The meeting of the three leaders will take place after Trump indicated on Wednesday that he is likely to let the T-MEC, the free trade agreement with Mexico and Canada, expire and that he will seek a new trade agreement with his neighbors.
The revision of the treaty is scheduled for 2026.
With information from EFE
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