Washington: For the first time since 2016, US President Joe Biden joined Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador at the White House for a North American Leaders' Summit. According to sources, Biden met separately with Trudeau and Obrador on Thursday before of the three-person summit, which was reportedly, skipped by former US President Donald Trump.

The three leaders "reiterated our strong linkages and integration, as well as our willingness to create a new course for our relationship at a time when we face extraordinarily complex global problems" during the summit, according to a statement released by the White House.

The leaders agreed to take concrete steps toward achieving their shared objectives, including ending the Covid-19 pandemic and advancing global health, fostering competitiveness and creating conditions for equitable growth, and coordinating a regional response to migration, according to the statement.

"We can meet all the issues if we just take the time to speak with one another - by working together," Biden told the journalists. "We also need to put a stop to the pandemic and take serious measures to address the climate disaster," he added. Efforts such as boosting supply chain resilience and dependence, worker safeguards, cybersecurity, and helping small and medium companies thrive in the Northern Hemisphere, according to the President, can further strengthen the area.

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