José Díaz Briseño/Agencia Reforma
Wednesday, January 04, 2023 | 16:12
Washington- The White House avoided this Wednesday confirming if the official plane of President Joe Biden (known by its name in English as Air Force One) will land at the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) next week when the US president makes an official trip to Mexico City.
Questioned about the public statements of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador last week asking President Biden to land at the AIFA when he attends the North American Leaders Summit, a spokesman for the White House National Security Council avoided commenting on the landing site.
“I don’t have anything today about the landing site for you,” John Kirby, the top spokesman for the National Security Council, said when questioned by a reporter at a virtual press conference.
“I don’t have our flight plan to talk about,” Kirby repeated when asked what President Biden’s arrival airport would be for the visit to Mexico planned for January 9 and 10.
Just last week, López Obrador had publicly requested during his daily press conference that President Biden consider, out of diplomacy and political tact, establishing the airport located in the Mexican municipality of Zumpango de Ocampo as the landing site for Air Force One.
Since November, López Obrador had presumed Biden’s visit to Mexico City, assuring that the US president had agreed to land at AIFA, one of his Administration’s strategic projects, which, however, still does not receive US commercial flights.
