The Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs reminds that all representatives of the media interested in covering the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Los Cabos, Baja California, on 18 and 19 June, should fill out a press accreditation form. The form available online - online registration will close on Sunday, 13 May - at: http://www.g20.org/en/acreditaciones.

The Embassy of Mexico and the Aun Iranian Art Foundation cordially invite you to The Contemporary Mexican Silversmith Exhibition of Ofelia Murrieta.

Aun Iranian Art Foundation

44 Seoul Ave. Vanak, Tehran 19958, Iran

Friday, May 11^th, 16:00-20:00

Tel: +98 21 88 60 66 00 Fax: +98 21 88 60 66 10

The G20 Meeting of Labour and Employment Ministers will be held on 17 and 18 May in Guadalajara, Jalisco. For more information, visit the website: www.g20.org

17 and 18 of May of this year, will be held the second meeting of Vice Ministers of Agriculture of the G20, to be held in Mexico City and organized by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA), which is particularly important event for concrete recommendations to be presented at the G20 Leaders' Meeting, to be held next June in Los Cabos, Baja California Sur.

The Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs kindly requests that all representatives of the media interested in covering the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Los Cabos, Baja California, on 18 and 19 June to fill out a press accreditation form. The form in now available online - online registration will close on Sunday, 13 May - at: http://www.g20.org/en/acreditaciones

Access to the Los Cabos Convention Center will be restricted; therefore, the Ministry will set up a Press Room at the Grand Faro Los Cabos Hotel with all the necessary facilities for the media to cover the Summit.

Press accreditations are non-transferable and no one will be accredited after 13 May.

The Ministry is not responsible for lodging or making travel reservations. Please contract Turismo & Convenciones directly to make travel arrangements.

Turismo&Convenciones

Adriana Zaldívar

Ángel Urraza 625, colonia Del Valle,

03100, México, D.F.

T: +52 (55) 5148-7500

F: +52 (55) 5148-2010

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www.turycon.com.mx

As a part of the Mexican initiative the "Agreement of Cooperation in the framework of respect for human rights" was signed between the Ministries of the Interior, National Defense, the Navy, Public Security, and the Attorney General's Office. The Convention obliges the authorities to promote, respect, protect and guarantee human rights, within its mandate and in accordance with the principles of universality, interdependence, indivisibility and progressiveness.  Consequently, the State must prevent, investigate, punish and make amends for human rights violations in the terms established by law.

The main goal of this Legal instrument is that the parties recognize and accept, in the field of competence, legitimate use of force, arrest and referral to the courts, and chain of custody.

The protocols for the use of force set specific guidelines to regulate the legitimate use of force of federal and ministerial police, soldiers and marine, and in particular, states that the authorities involved would not trigger firearms against people when they evade, flee or try to flee, except in case of aggressive acts of resistance represent a serious and imminent threat of death or serious injury.

Under the protocols for the arrest and referral to the courts, security officials are obliged to inform detainees of the reason for their detention and the rights they have, acting in full compliance with the law.

The protocols for chain of custody set out specific actions and the methodology that the authorities should continue to preserve and maintain crime scene evidence.

In the 16th Children Drawing Contest:” This is my Mexico”, theme “5^th May, 150^th Anniversary of the Battle of Puebla”, it were received 3,746 drawings coming from 36 Consulates of Mexico in the US, 2 from Canada and 42 from other Mexican Embassies and Consulates in the world. The Jury selected as winners 15 children. For more information on the website:  www.ime.gob.mx

The Mexican team Mextronics, composed by Elías Alberto Petrilli Barceló, PHD student at CINVESTAV Guadalajara, Efraín Hernández Franco, Jonathan Alcántar Márquez, professors at the Pan-American University, and Roberto Carlos Ramírez Márquez, student in the aforementioned university, participate with Humanoid Robots in  the RoboCup IranOpen 2012, from 3 to 7 April 2012. http://2012.iranopen.ir

The book of condolences was opened on death of former President Miguel de la Madrid from 1982 to 1988. The act will remain open on days 4, 5 and 8 of April from 11 to 13 hours.

Olympics Student Center of the Islamic Republic of Iran is holding the Olympics in Mathematics and Chemistry from 13 to 17 of July.

Those interested in participating in this event must form teams of up to five students, accompanied by one or two teachers. The National Educational Testing Organization said Iran covers the costs of accommodation and staying in that country. The cost of airline tickets, round trip, shall be paid by the participants in said Olympics. For more details, please consult the following link:

http://olympiad.sanjesh.org/en/index.asp

The Institute of Mexican Abroad, the Population National Council and the National Council for Culture and Arts publish a book containing the winning histories and those receiving honorable mention of the IV Contest of Histories of Migrants. The book can be read on the following link: http://www.conapo.gob.mx/publicaciones/hist_migra/Historias2011.pdf and on the websites:  www.ime.gob.mx; www.redesmexico.mx; www.conaculta.gob.mx

The National Centre for the Evaluation of Higher Education (CENEVAL) administers the Spanish Certification Test as a Foreign Language (ECELE), which is authorized by the Secretariat of Public Education for People interested in accrediting their command of Spanish. For more information on the following website: www.ceneval.edu.mx

The Embassy of Mexico will be closed on 19, 20, 21 and 22 of March, for holidays. Activities will resume after the weekend, the day 25^th.  To see the public opening hours and emergency telephone numbers please visit this link

To see the requirements to import pets into Mexico please refer to this link:

http://www.senasica.gob.mx