Fox pledges to support anti-terrorist fight, Bush confirms commitment to Mexican Immigrants in US

Posted on September 18, 2001

EFE - 9/17/2001

MEXICO CITY - Mexican President Vicente Fox pledged his support for a U.S.-led international fight "to end terrorism, within the framework of the law."

In his weekly radio program, the president said he will "work with all countries to eradicate this painful evil, so that this will never happen again."

"All countries - NATO countries and those in the U.N. National Security Council - are also working with the Rio Group and in the OAS (Organization of American States) to end terrorism, always within the law, creating institutions to deal with it and making sure we are making headway as a civilization," Fox said.

He considered Tuesday's attacks an affront to humanity because they targeted a site where hundreds of citizens of the world were working.

"This is a true attack on peace, on the peace of mind of the whole world. Nowadays, we can all be subject to terrorist attacks," he added.

Fox said he had transmitted his condolences to U.S. President George W. Bush, who had surprised him by answering that he continued to work on legalizing the situation of undocumented Mexican immigrants in the United States.

"I was truly surprised that Bush himself, at such difficult time, was not forgetting his commitments," Fox said.