Harper, Obama, Pena Nieto Confirm 'Three Amigos' Meeting Next Month Agence France-Presse
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper, right, and Mexican president-elect Enrique Pena Nieto arrive to take part in a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Nov. 28, 2012. (The Canadian Press)

U.S. President Barack Obama will travel to Toluca, Mexico on February 19 for a North American leaders summit, the White House said Monday.

The meeting will be hosted by Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto and will also include Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said the talks would focus on "a range of issues important to the daily lives of all of North America's people, including economic competitiveness, entrepreneurship, trade and investment, and citizen security."

The talks will mark the first visit by Obama to Mexico since relations between the neighbors were rattled by fugitive U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden's allegations of U.S. spying against Mexican leaders.

Claims that the National Security Agency spied on Pena Nieto and his predecessors embarrassed the United States, following a wave of global anger at its alleged spying operations.

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