Mexico says progress needed before president meets Trump

Jared Kushner, senior adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, listens to Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto during a meeting at Los Pinos presidential residence, in this handout photograph released to Reuters by the Mexico Presidency, March 7, 2018. Mexico Presidency/Handout via REUTERS

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - White House advisor Jared Kushner left Mexico City on Wednesday with prospects no nearer for a summit between his father-in-law President Donald Trump and Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto, as both sides said progress on joint policy concerns was needed first.

Kushner met with Pena Nieto and other top Mexican officials in a bid to soothe recent tensions after it emerged that a phone call between the two presidents had gone badly due to Trump's insistence that Mexico pay for a border wall he wants to build to stop illegal immigrants.