Obama has security confab, meets Mexico president

Friday, February 25, 2011, Vol. 35, No. 8

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is focusing mostly on foreign affairs Thursday.

In the morning, Obama will join his national security team at the White House for their monthly meeting on Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Then the president will hold several meetings with President Felipe Calderon (fay-LEE'-pay kahl-duh-ROHN') of Mexico, including a one-on-one meeting in the Oval Office. Vice President Joe Biden will also attend.

Obama and Calderon will hold a news conference in the East Room afterward. In the afternoon, the two leaders will share a working lunch in the Old Family Dining Room.

Later, the president will talk to the crews of space shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station as Discovery conducts its final mission in orbit.