WASHINGTON
(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexican President Enrique
Pena Nieto postponed plans for the Mexican leader's first visit to the
White House, after a testy phone call involving Trump's push for a
border wall, a senior U.S. official said on Saturday.
"The
two leaders agreed now was not the immediate right time for a visit but
that they would have their teams continue to talk and work together,"
the official said.
Mexican officials had been talking about a summit between Trump and Pena Nieto in the next few weeks, without specifying when.
The
Washington Post, which first reported the delay earlier on Saturday,
said the two leaders spoke for about 50 minutes on Tuesday. But the
discussion led to an impasse when Trump would not agree to publicly
affirm Mexico's position that it would not fund construction of the wall
along the U.S.-Mexico border.
A
Mexican official said Trump lost his temper during the conversation,
the newspaper reported. But it said U.S. officials described Trump as
frustrated and exasperated, because he believed it was unreasonable for
Pena Nieto to want him to back off his campaign promise of forcing
Mexico to pay for the wall.
Source: Yahoo News
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