President Obama to Travel to Mexico for “Three Amigos” Summit
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Official White House Photo by Pete Souza(TOLUCA, Mexico) — President Obama will attend the “Three Amigos” summit on Wednesday, meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
The three leaders are expected to discuss economic competitiveness, trade, investment and citizen security.
Obama will arrive in Toluca at about 1:10 p.m. ET, before a 1:55 p.m. bilateral meeting with the Mexican President. Later, all three leaders will take part in a “working lunch,” at 3:45 p.m.
Obama and Harper will have a walk-and-talk after lunch before the U.S. president speaks to reporters at 5:50 p.m. All three leaders will then meet for discussions at 6:30 p.m. before their joint news conference at 8:15 p.m.
Among other things, Canada’s Harper will be looking for answers as to why the Keystone XL pipeline remains in limbo despite expectation that Obama would approve the project two years ago.
A State Department report released last month stated that the pipeline was “unlikely to significantly impact the rate of extraction in the oil sands or the continued demand for heavy crude oil at refineries in the United States based on expected oil prices, oil-sands supply costs, transport costs, and supply-demand scenarios.”
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