North American Leaders' Summit

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North American Leaders' Summit
Canada, Mexico and the United States
Canada, Mexico and the United States

Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador

United States President Joe Biden

The North American Leaders' Summit (NALS), called the Three Amigos Summit in the English language popular press and Cumbre de Los Tres Amigos in Spanish,[1][2][3][4] is the trilateral summit between the prime minister of Canada, the president of Mexico, and the president of the United States.[5] The summits were initially held as part of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), a continent-level dialogue between the three countries established in 2005, and continued after SPP became inactive in 2009.[6][7]

The most recent North American Leaders' Summit was hosted by Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador on January 10, 2023 in Mexico City.

Meetings[edit]

Until 2009, the summits were held as part of the wider Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America. There are no fixed dates for the summits and in some years a summit has not been held for varying reasons.[8] In 2011, the summit was postponed out of respect for the bereavement of the Mexican government after the death of Mexican Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora, and in 2015, Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper cancelled the Three Amigos summit as a political statement to protest U.S. President Barack Obama's push against the Keystone XL oil pipeline.[9][10]

During the Trump administration from 2017 to 2021, no official summits were held.[11] The leaders of the three countries continued to meet at other events, such as the signing of the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement during the 2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit.

Year Location Dates Host leader Guest leaders
2005 United States Waco, Texas March 23 George W. Bush Mexico Vicente Fox
Canada Paul Martin
2006 Mexico Cancún, Quintana Roo March 31 Vicente Fox United States George W. Bush
Canada Stephen Harper
2007 Canada Montebello, Quebec August 20–21 Stephen Harper United States George W. Bush
Mexico Felipe Calderón
2008 United States New Orleans, Louisiana April 21–22 George W. Bush Mexico Felipe Calderón
Canada Stephen Harper
2009 Mexico Guadalajara, Jalisco August 8–11 Felipe Calderón Canada Stephen Harper
United States Barack Obama
2010 No meeting held[notes 1][8]
2011 No meeting held[notes 2][9]
2012 United States Washington, D.C. April 2 Barack Obama Mexico Felipe Calderón
Canada Stephen Harper
2013 No meeting held[8]
2014 Mexico Toluca, State of Mexico February 19 Enrique Peña Nieto Canada Stephen Harper
United States Barack Obama
2015 No meeting held[notes 3][10]
2016 Canada Ottawa, Ontario June 29 Justin Trudeau United States Barack Obama
Mexico Enrique Peña Nieto
2017 No meetings held[notes 4][12]
2018
2019
2020
2021 United States Washington, D.C. November 18 Joe Biden Canada Justin Trudeau
Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador
2022 No meeting held
2023 Mexico Mexico City January 10 Andrés Manuel López Obrador Canada Justin Trudeau
United States Joe Biden

Photo gallery[edit]

See also[edit]

Bilateral relations
Trilateral relations

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ A planned 2010 summit in Wakefield, Quebec was postponed and later cancelled by Stephen Harper.
  2. ^ The planned November 13, 2011 summit in Honolulu, Hawaii was cancelled by Barack Obama after the death of Mexican Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora and several other Mexican government officials in a helicopter crash
  3. ^ The planned 2015 summit in Canada was postponed and later cancelled by Stephen Harper over tensions with the administration of Barack Obama over the Keystone XL oil pipeline
  4. ^ No summits were held during the presidency of Donald Trump.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Cheadle, Bruce (April 3, 2012). "Three Amigos summit not so chummy". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
  2. ^ Potter, Mitch (April 2, 2012). "Analysis: Stephen Harper faces tricky terrain during 'Three Amigos' summit". Toronto Star.
  3. ^ Horsley, Scott (June 29, 2016). "Obama To Meet Mexican-Canadian Counterparts In Ottawa". Morning Edition. NPR. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
  4. ^ Univision. "Tres temas clave de la cumbre de 'los tres amigos' entre México, EEUU y Canadá". Univision (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-01-20.
  5. ^ "North American Leaders' Summit (NALS)". North American Commercial Platform. International Trade Administration, US Department of Commerce. Archived from the original on October 4, 2018. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
  6. ^ "President Bush to Attend North American Leaders' Summit in Canada". News Archive. Office of the White House Press Secretary. June 15, 2007. Archived from the original on January 11, 2009. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
  7. ^ Baril, Sophie-Anne; Cicchitelli, Ernesto (July 1, 2016). "Three Amigos Convene Again: The 2016 North American Leaders' Summit". Council on Hemispheric Affairs. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
  8. ^ a b c "Stephen Harper postpones North American Leaders' Summit to late 2015". CBC News. January 15, 2015. Retrieved January 27, 2017. "There is no fixed time of year for the three leaders to meet. Dates for the summit have been prone to change. The three countries rotated hosting duties between 2005 and 2009, but in 2010, Canada postponed a meeting that had been scheduled to be held in Wakefield, Que., and then did not host it at all... There was no summit in 2013.
  9. ^ a b Fekete, Jason (November 12, 2011). "Tragic deaths force cancellation of Three Amigos summit in Hawaii". Ottawa Citizen. Postmedia News. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
  10. ^ a b Proudfoot, Shannon (June 28, 2016). "A cheat sheet for the Three Amigos summit". Maclean's. Retrieved January 27, 2017. Harper cancelled the 2015 summit amid mounting tension with the U.S. over the Keystone XL pipeline, which Obama ultimately rejected
  11. ^ "Joe Biden to host first 'Three Amigos' summit since 2016". BBC News. November 10, 2021. Retrieved November 13, 2021.
  12. ^ "Leaders of U.S., Canada and Mexico to hold first Three Amigos summit in five years". Montreal Gazette. Reuters. November 10, 2021. Retrieved November 13, 2021. The leaders started holding what is informally known as the Three Amigos summit in 2005 and met most years until 2016. The practice ended when U.S. President Donald Trump took office in January 2017.

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