Foreign Dignitaries to Tour US-Mexico Border
Article CAIRCO note:
From the article: They are from various countries including Albania, Belarus, Croatia, Hungary, Latvia, Kenya, Lithuania and Uzbekistan
Article publisher:
NBC 7
Article date:
17 June 2019
Article category:
National News
Medium
Article Body:
Ambassadors to the United States from dozens of African, Asian and Eastern European nations toured the U.S.-Mexico border south of San Diego Monday under the invitation of the U.S. State Department.
The tour was guided by Customs and Border Protection and showed ambassadors spans of primary and secondary border fencing....
“It’s the first time I’m witnessing these tall borders, tall walls," Vakhabov [Uzbekistan's ambassador to the U.S] said. He says his country deals with many of the same threats the U.S. does at its southern border, but Uzbekistan shares boundaries with five nations ...
"Smuggling of narcotics, illicit trafficking of persons, illegal delivery of weapons ..."