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1st LD: EU-Canada summit to take place Sunday: EU's Tusk

Xinhua, October 29, 2016 Adjust font size:

The European Union (EU)-Canada summit will take place on Sunday, European Council President Donald Tusk tweeted late Friday.

"Mission accomplished! Just agreed with (Canadian) PM Justin Trudeau to hold EU-Canada Summit this Sunday," Tusk said.

The remarks shortly came after all Belgian regional parliaments voted in favor of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, or CETA, on Friday.

The EU and Canada canceled a scheduled summit on Thursday due to the deadlock forged by Belgium's Wallonia parliament which concerned that CETA would harm European interest and grant too much power to multinationals. Endit