butterbean
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 Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:49 pm Post subject: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. |
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OTTAWA - As a prelude to a visit to Canada by U.S. President George W. Bush later this year, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit Ottawa this month for meetings with Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay.
Rice and U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff will be joined in Ottawa on Feb. 23 by their Mexican counterparts, for a day of talks with MacKay and Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day.
The meeting will be the latest installment of the three-way North American security and prosperity partnership and will set the table for a follow-up to last year's Three Amigos Summit in Cancun, Mexico, which will be held later this year, somewhere in Canada.
No date has been set for the summit, which U.S. officials said Monday could be pushed back to the fall.
The visit would be Bush's second to Canada.
The accord is intended to strengthen security co-operation between the three North American neighbours, while fostering co-operation on a wide range of trade and regulatory issues to safely speed the flow of goods between the three countries.
Business leaders have long supported what is sometimes referred to as a NAFTA-plus initiative, or a way of building on the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=8f8f0fdc-cf9e-421e-93c7-507aae96ccf3&k=52122 |
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