Wednesday, March 9, 2011

France suspends the Year for Mexico by Florence Cassez

The French organizers of the Year in Mexico in France said Tuesday they have found it impossible to continue with the events planned to promote Mexican culture in France in 2011. The French Institute, responsible for organizing the Year of Mexico, and said in a statement after weeks of diplomatic row between Paris and Mexico for the case of Florence Cassez, gala citizen sentenced to 60 years in prison in Mexico for kidnapping.

This body, "notes the impossibility of implementing" the events planned, he said. Organizers of the Year in Mexico added that the French and Mexican commissioners of the event, Jean-Jacques Perret Bousouf and Henry, respectively, will meet next week in Paris to "take appropriate administrative and financial" arising from the current stalemate.

A spokeswoman at the French Institute indicated that the meeting will be held Monday and Tuesday and will be analyzed in the same "case by case" each of the 360 events scheduled to determine whether it is possible to recover financially and administratively with other settings or at different times .

"The withdrawal of the Mexican side has led to deprogram a large number of events" as "guest country (...) corresponded to take over the transport of the works and the people" who participate in them, said the Institute . The French Institute has made available to the organizers of the acts to help remove and cancel them or, if possible, delay or reprogram.

The spokesman said that "the seal of the Year in Mexico", which accompanied the events planned in the series, "no longer exists," as its Web site and sponsor committee bringing together sponsors from both countries . Last weekend France and Mexico held talks to try to recover the activities, but their outcome was unsuccessful, said a spokesman for the French Foreign Ministry.

The ministry spokesman expressed the desire of France to the effort to prepare the Year in Mexico "should not perish" and "serves to preserve and develop the friendly relations and cooperation between the two countries." "Beyond labels hope that the artists can express themselves," said Rep.

France. The diplomatic tension between the two countries questioned the Year in Mexico, after President Nicolas Sarkozy, decided on October 14 that each of the 360 events planned Cassez be dedicated to something that did not accept Mexico. The two countries accuse each other of having given to finish the event but neither has put it bluntly.

Meanwhile, Cassez lawyers on Monday filed a motion to review the case before the Supreme Court's Office for alleged rights violations suffered by the public gala. A thesis that supports the French Government, which asked, first, the reversal of the conviction and, secondly, the transfer of Cassez to a French prison to serve the sentence in their country.

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