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 News from Around the Americas | February 2007 
Canada to Host US, Mexican Ministers
 Agence France Presse
| | Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay (L) and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice hold a news conference after a bilateral meeting in Washington in 2006. The chief diplomats of Canada, Mexico and the United States will meet February 23 in Ottawa to discuss border security, trade and energy partnership, the Canadian government said. (AFP/Karen Bleier) |
The chief diplomats of Canada, Mexico and the United States will meet on February 23 in Ottawa to discuss border security, trade and energy partnership, the Canadian government has said.
Washington will send US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff and Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez to the meeting, the Canadian government said in a statement.
Mexico will be represented by Foreign Affairs Secretary Patricia Espinosa, Interior Secretary Francisco Javier Ramirez Acuna and Commerce Secretary Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape.
Canadian Foreign Minister Peter MacKay, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day and Industry Minister Maxime Bernier will host the meeting.
The US State Department confirmed that Rice, Chertoff and Gutierrez would attend the meeting.
The trio "will meet with their Canadian and Mexican counterparts to discuss how the three democracies are working together to ensure continued prosperity and how we can provide greater security for all of North America," Rice's spokesman Sean McCormack said in a statement.
The three North American neighbors launched the Security and Prosperity Partnership in March 2005 to bolster cooperation on border security, trade and energy.
The three economies are otherwise joined by the North American Free Trade Agreement. |
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