ADVERTISEMENTMexican President Enrique Peña Nieto announced Thursday that he canceled a meeting with President Donald Trump that had been scheduled to take place on Jan. 31 in Washington. In a series of tweets, Peña Nieto said he lamented the Trump administration’s decision to insist on Mexico paying for the proposed border wall, a condition the Mexican president has long said he would not accept. “This morning, we have informed the White House that I will not attend the work meeting scheduled for next Tuesday with @POTUS,” Peña Nieto wrote. — Enrique Peña Nieto (@EPN) January 26, 2017“Mexico offers and demands respect, as a the sovereign Nation that we are,” Peña Nieto wrote in another tweet. Peña Nieto stopped short of saying in the video that he wouldn’t attend the meeting with Trump, but insisted once again his government wouldn’t pay for the construction of a border wall.

Source: Huffington Post January 26, 2017 17:18 UTC