Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard today inaugurated a Foreign Ministry municipal liaison office in Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca, in response to the instruction of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to provide quality services to all Mexicans regardless of where they live.

The Foreign Secretary told the thousands of Oaxacans and local authorities gathered at the inauguration that the Mexican government intends to "always bring its offices to the people and provide the best service."

On another issue, he promised to invite U.S. companies to the region in order to promote its economic development.

"You can count on us to bring our services closer to you, to listen to you. We have to listen, not just talk. I am going to meet with all of the authorities to listen to them, because they have important things to say. And we are going to return, because our job is to support what each of the communities of Mexico tells us," concluded the Foreign Secretary.

The Foreign Secretary was accompanied by Huajuapan de León Mayor Luis de León Martínez Sánchez, whom he thanked for his interest and support in opening the new office; the Director General of Passport Offices, Carlos Candelaria López; and by legislators and federal and local authorities.

Director General Candelaria said that the Oaxaca passport office wlll be able to issue 4,500 passports a month, or 54,000 a year. Total production in Oaxaca (Oaxaca passport office and the Huajuapan municipal liaison office) will therefore reach 6,500 passports a month, or 78,000 a year.

The municipal liaison office inaugurated today is the 134th in the country. It will accept passport applications and take the biometrics of the applicants, and send the information to the Oaxaca passport office for authorization. The passports will then be returned to Huajuapan.

While in Oaxaca, Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard met with residents of Nochixtlán. He discussed the work done by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's administration to bring investment to southern Mexico.

Saturday was the second day of Secretary Ebrard's tour of Oaxaca, which began yesterday with a calenda, a traditional street festival, and a meeting with thousands of residents.

This Sunday, Foreign Secretary Ebrard will be in Tuxtepec, where he will inaugurate another passport office to increase the availability of passport services in the state.

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