Foreign Affairs Minister Claudia Ruiz Says U.S.-Mexico Relationship Goes Beyond Governments Tom Keene and Eric Martin - Bloomberg
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Mexico Foreign Affairs Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu discusses the Mexico-United States relationship, government outreach to the Clinton and Trump campaigns, and the nation's commitment to free trade. She speaks with Bloomberg's Alix Steel on "Bloomberg GO." (Bloomberg)

Mexico’s foreign minister, Claudia Ruiz Massieu, dismissed Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump’s calls for the nation to pay for a border wall, calling instead for greater integration between the nations.

In interviews with Bloomberg Radio and Bloomberg TV in New York on Thursday, Ruiz cited the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership as an opportunity to deepen the trade relationship created by the North American Free Trade Agreement, which took effect in 1994.

Trump has made his demand for Mexico to pay as much as $10 billion to build the wall a centerpiece of his campaign and has threatened to block remittance payments from immigrants in the U.S. until the Mexican government complies.

"We’re not even considering such a proposition," Ruiz said. "We’re in the business of creating prosperity, creating jobs, creating more investment to detonate more opportunities for our people, as are most governments in the world. The way to do that is to go further with more integration, more integrated chains of value, and remaining more competitive."

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