Mexico foreign minister: We won't be paying for a wall

Claudia Ruiz Massieu says a wall "not part of our vision" as President Pena Nieto says he is ready to work with Trump.

Many Mexicans criticised their president for receiving Trump during the election campaign [Reuters]

Mexico's foreign minister has reasserted that her government would not pay for a wall along the US border - a promise made by US president-elect Donald Trump during his election campaign.

"Paying for a wall is not part of our vision," Claudia Ruiz Massieu told local television on Wednesday, after Trump triumphed in the US election.

Trump had vowed that he would build a massive border wall, and make Mexico pay for it.

Massieu said that the government had maintained communication with Trump's campaign team since the property mogul paid a visit to Mexico in August.

"There has been a fluid, daily communication with different members of the campaign," she said.

Separately, Mexico's President Pena Nieto said that he was ready to work with Trump to improve bilateral relations, and that the two countries would continue to tighten bonds of cooperation and mutual respect.

Nieto was heavily criticised for receiving Trump in Mexico during the campaign, after the Republican candidate called Mexican immigrants rapists.

"Mexico and the United States are friends, partners and allies and we should keep collaborating for the competitiveness and development of North America," Nieto said on his Twitter account.

Trump has said that he would rescind the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which has increased commerce between Mexico, the United States and Canada, saying that it has killed US jobs.