North American Leaders' Summit

North American Leaders' Summit
Canada, Mexico and the United States Prime Minister Mark Carney President Claudia Sheinbaum President Donald Trump

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

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 first administration of Donald Trump 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	Waco, Texas	March 23	George W. Bush	Vicente Fox Paul Martin
2006	Cancún, Quintana Roo	March 31	Vicente Fox	George W. Bush Stephen Harper
2007	Montebello, Quebec	August 20–21	Stephen Harper	George W. Bush Felipe Calderón
2008	New Orleans, Louisiana	April 21–22	George W. Bush	Felipe Calderón Stephen Harper
2009	Guadalajara, Jalisco	August 8–11	Felipe Calderón	Stephen Harper Barack Obama
2010	Wakefield, Quebec	No meeting held [notes 1] [8]	Stephen Harper	Felipe Calderón Barack Obama
2011	Honolulu, Hawaii	No meeting held [notes 2] [9]	Barack Obama	Felipe Calderón Stephen Harper
2012	Washington, D.C.	April 2	Barack Obama	Felipe Calderón Stephen Harper
2013		No meeting held [8]	Stephen Harper	Barack Obama Enrique Peña Nieto
2014	Toluca, State of Mexico	February 19	Enrique Peña Nieto	Stephen Harper Barack Obama
2015		No meeting held [notes 3] [10]	Stephen Harper	Barack Obama Enrique Peña Nieto
2016	Ottawa, Ontario	June 29	Justin Trudeau	Barack Obama Enrique Peña Nieto
2017	No meetings held [notes 4]
2018
2019
2020
2021	Washington, D.C.	November 18 [12]	Joe Biden	Justin Trudeau Andrés Manuel López Obrador
2022	No meeting held
2023	Mexico City	January 10	Andrés Manuel López Obrador	Justin Trudeau Joe Biden
2024	No meeting held

Photo gallery

• 
  I Summit of Leaders of America (2005).
• 
  II Summit of Leaders of America (2006).
• 
  IV Summit of Leaders of America (2008).
• 
  V Summit of Leaders of America (2009).
• 
  VII Summit of Leaders of America (2014).
• 
  VIII Summit of Leaders of America (2016).
• 
  IX Summit of Leaders of America (2021).
• 
  X Summit of Leaders of America (2023).

See also

Bilateral relations

• Canada–United States relations
• Mexico–United States relations
• Canada–Mexico relations

Trilateral relations

• United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement, and its predecessor the North American Free Trade Agreement
• North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation
• Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, predecessor to NALS
• North American Union, a theoretical economic and political union of the three countries

Notes

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

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. "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. Fekete, Jason (November 12, 2011). "Tragic deaths force cancellation of Three Amigos summit in Hawaii". Ottawa Citizen. Postmedia News. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
10. 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.

External links

• NALS 2016 website