[2] In March 2002, Ivorian Foreign Minister Aboudramane Sangaré paid a visit to Mexico to attend the International Conference on Financing for Development Summit in Monterrey.

[1] In December 2013, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, while traveling to South Africa to attend the funeral for Nelson Mandela, made a stopover in Ivory Coast.

On his return home to Mexico from South Africa, President Peña Nieto made a second stopover in Ivory Coast and was met by the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Claude Dassys Beke.

[4] In February 2016, the National Autonomous University of Mexico bestowed the "UNESCO-UNAM Jaime Torres Bodet International Award" to Ivorian poet and novelist Bernard Binlin Dadié for his modern literature of the African continent.

Mexico's main exports to Ivory Coast include: tubes and pipes of iron or steel, malt extract, fish, meat, medicines, discs, tapes and other media for sound recordings; machinery, tractors, motor cars and other vehicles.