Everyone wants President Obama to drop by and say hello. Canada, we've heard from Canadian sources, will be his first international source, likely some time in early March.
Obama's big international coming-out party will be the G20 meeting in London, England on April 2. This is the essentially the second half of the G20 meeting that Barack's predecessor hosted in Washington in November to deal with the economy. At the earlier meeting, world leaders agreed to get together in the spring to to do more to help the global economy.
From London, Obama (and Prime Minister Harper) will travel to the NATO heads of state meeting in Strasbourg, France on April 3-4. It is the 60th anniversary of the alliance and there are plenty of important issues for it to consider namely and in no apparent order: 1) A resurgent Russia, 2) Afghanistan and 3) NATO expansion.
Now we learn, from a blog covering Hilary's Secretary of State-ship, that after that, Obama will do a European tour after the NATO meeting that will include a stop in Russia.