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Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau walks down a corridor wrong the venue of the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit successful Glasgow, Scotland, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021. The U.N. clime acme successful Glasgow gathers leaders from astir the world, successful Scotland's biggest city, to laic retired their imaginativeness for addressing the communal situation of planetary warming. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden volition big talks adjacent week successful Washington with the leaders of Canada and Mexico, the White House said Wednesday.

The Nov. 18 gathering volition beryllium the archetypal with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador since Biden took bureau successful January and the archetypal get-together since 2016 of what had been near-annual summits betwixt the North American neighbors.

President Donald Trump, who had analyzable relationships with the leaders of some countries, did not proceed the tradition.

Biden held abstracted virtual meetings with Trudeau successful February and López Obrador successful March. The Mexican person besides hosted Vice President Kamala Harris successful Mexico City successful June.

The White House said the upcoming gathering volition reaffirm the countries' “strong ties and integration portion besides charting a caller way for collaboration” connected the coronavirus pandemic, clime change, migration and economical growth.

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Biden has tried to stabilize relations with some nations aft ties became frosty nether Trump, who feuded with Trudeau connected commercialized and different issues. Trump angered Mexican leaders with anti-immigrant taunts and his administration's effort to physique a partition on the U.S.-Mexico border.

In 2018, Trump took to Twitter to statement Trudeau “dishonest and weak” aft the premier curate voiced objections to Trump raising tariffs connected alloy and aluminum from Canada, Mexico and the European Union.

Trump blew up again astatine Trudeau successful 2019, calling him “two-faced” aft Trudeau was caught connected video mocking the American president arsenic helium spoke to different satellite leaders connected the sidelines of a NATO league successful England.

The Biden and Trudeau administrations worked intimately to pave the mode for the September merchandise of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, who were arrested successful China successful December 2018. The 2 businessman were taken into custody soon aft Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s main fiscal serviceman and the girl of the company’s founder, connected a U.S. extradition request.

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Meng reached an statement with prosecutors that called for fraud charges against her to beryllium dismissed adjacent twelvemonth and allowed for her to instrumentality to China immediately. As portion of the deal, she accepted work for misrepresenting the company’s concern dealings successful Iran. About an hr aft Meng’s level near Canada for China, Trudeau revealed that Kovrig and Spavor were besides connected their mode home.

Trump's signature run committedness was gathering a partition crossed the magnitude of the U.S.-Mexico border. Leaked conversations showed Trump hectoring López Obrador’s predecessor, Enrique Peña Nieto, against publically saying that Mexico would ne'er wage for specified a barrier.

López Obrador appeared to scope a one-issue knowing with Trump: Mexico stopped the travel of Central American migrants trying to scope the U.S. border. In turn, Trump often ignored different issues successful the analyzable relationship.

Plans for the 3 leaders' gathering were archetypal reported by Reuters.

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