On January 20, the inaugural 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump, signed a decree “Restoring Names Celebrating the Greatness of America,” under which the Gulf of Mexico is renamed the Gulf of America.. This decision, as noted in the document, should emphasize the key role of the region in the history, economy and energy security of the United States.

The document notes that the bay is an important transport hub, a major fishing region and one of the richest oil and gas basins in the world.. Its resources provide 14% of US oil production and a significant share of natural gas.

“The Gulf will continue to play a key role in shaping the future of America and the global economy, and in recognition of this thriving economic resource and its critical importance to the economy of our nation and its people, I am directing that it be officially renamed the Gulf of America,” the executive order said..

President-elect Donald Trump announced plans to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to reporters on January 7.

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Following this, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, said she plans to introduce legislation to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico through Congress..

“I have instructed my staff to immediately begin drafting legislation to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the American Gulf. This is important to start funding map changes for all federal government agencies, such as the Aviation Administration and the military,"

She later published the text of the proposal, in which she noted that Mexican cartels use the Gulf to traffic people, drugs, weapons and God knows what else, and the Mexican government allows them to do this.

" Our US military forces protect this area from any foreign military threats. This is our bay. Its legal name is America's Gulf, and that is what the world should call it,"

First, after voicing plans to rename the reservoir, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, in turn, proposed calling North America “Mexican America.”.

According to her, the founding document of 1814, which preceded the Mexican constitution, called the current US territories "

After signing the decree on the renaming, the President of Mexico noted that on the American part of the mainland, Trump can call the bay whatever he wants.

“To us it’s still the Gulf of Mexico, and to the world it’s still the Gulf of Mexico,” laughed Claudia Sheinbaum..

The International Hydrographic Organization is responsible for surveying and uniformly charting all the world's seas, oceans and navigable waters.. Both the US and Mexico are members of this organization. At the same time, a federal interdepartmental organization operates under the leadership of the Minister of Internal Affairs, i.e.. The United States Board on Geographic Names, which is responsible for maintaining uniform usage. It does not create names for geographic features, but rather approves or rejects names proposed by others based on established policies. And even if this council agrees on an official name for the federal level, other countries are absolutely under no obligation to follow it.

According to the US State Department, the maritime boundary in the Gulf of Mexico between the United States and Mexico begins at the center of the mouth of the Rio Grande and runs along a fixed line. The US has maritime jurisdiction over its portion of the Gulf of Mexico, while Mexico has jurisdiction over its portion.

Let us recall that on January 20, during his inaugural speech, US President Donald Trump raised the issue of control over the Panama Canal, but the Russian Foreign Ministry stated that the Panama Canal legally belongs to Panama and warned the United States against attempts to return it through military or economic means..

Focus also wrote that Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen responded to statements by American President Donald Trump to take control of Greenland. He emphasized that the United States, like any other state, cannot “do whatever it pleases.”.