LONDON – British Foreign Secretary William Hague and Mexican counterpart Jose Antonio Meade signed a joint declaration Wednesday that lays the foundation for parallel cultural programs in 2015, when each country will put on a series of events in the other nation.Hague and Meade, who is on a three-day visit to Britain, signed the declaration for “The Year of Mexico in the UK and the UK in Mexico” during a summit in London on sexual violence in conflict zones.
Events to be held in Britain will showcase “the diversity of Mexico’s cultural heritage and its dynamism as a privileged destination for trade, investment and tourism,” while the program in Mexico will exhibit the “best of British creativity and British-Mexican collaborations,” the Mexican government said in a statement.
The parallel cultural programs will include an ambitious agenda in the fields of the arts, education, science, technical and scientific cooperation, as well as economic, trade and tourism promotion and gastronomy, the statement added.
The British Embassy in Mexico said in November of last year that the British program “will include approximately 50 events in 13 towns and cities, including at the main Mexican cultural festivals of the year.”
In Britain, “the Mexican government is preparing a parallel program of events that will light up cities across the country and introduce British audiences to the amazing energy and talent that modern Mexico has to offer,” the embassy said.
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