Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed on Monday her attendance at the G7 summit in Canada, where she considered a bilateral meeting with her US counterpart, Donald Trump, to be “likely” amid trade and immigration tensions between the two countries.

Sheinbaum detailed in her press conference at the National Palace that she will participate as a country guest in the meetings scheduled between June 15 and 17, to be held in Kananaskis (Alberta) by the bloc made up of Italy, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the US.

The president assured that her trip will be briefed and she will fly “on a commercial plane”, although she did not specify the day she will arrive at the meeting of G7 leaders.

In addition, she explained that the Mexican Foreign Minister, Juan Ramón de la Fuente, is still fine-tuning bilateral meetings with attending leaders, including Trump, with whom she said she is "likely" to meet.

The possible meeting with the US president, which would be the first between the two leaders, comes amid tensions following recent immigration raids in the United States, which resulted in the arrest of 42 Mexican citizens, as well as trade tensions over steel and aluminum tariffs.

"We'll see if this bilateral G7 meeting in Canada with President Trump takes place, but there's also a planned meeting with the Secretary of State (Marco Rubio) to come to our country, and the idea is to find a global framework for a memorandum of understanding that will allow us to work together over the next three and a half years, or so, that we'll be working with the US administration," Sheinbaum explained.

This Wednesday, the arrival of Undersecretary of State Christopher Landau, who was the US ambassador to Mexico during Trump's first term as US president (2019-2021), is expected.

Sheinbaum's attendance The trip to the G7 represents his second international trip since taking office on October 1, after attending the G20 in Brazil last November.

With information from EFE.