Clinton says will decide White House run early 2015

MEXICO CITY: Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton said Friday she would likely decide whether she will join the 2016 presidential race after the start of next year.

Clinton, who lost the Democratic presidential nomination to Barack Obama in 2008, is widely expected to make another run for the White House.

"I will be making a decision around probably after the first of the year about whether I am going to run again or not," the former first lady said in Mexico City at a forum hosted by the Telmex Foundation of Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim.

"It´s a very serious undertaking, so obviously I´m thinking about it, but I have not made a decision yet," said Clinton, who has previously indicated that she would not make an announcement before the end of this year.

She was speaking just as a potential rival in the 2016 election, Republican Governor Chris Christie, was wrapping up a three-day visit to Mexico seen as a way to burnish his foreign policy credentials.

Clinton said her experiences as first lady, senator and secretary of state have given her a "unique vantage point" about "what makes the United States operate well and what doesn´t, and what a president can do and should be doing.