will mark the 25th anniversary of Northern Ireland’s 1998 peace deal in Belfast on Wednesday and highlight his “strong desire” to increase U.S. investment there in meetings with political leaders, a senior U.S. official said.
Britain’s departure from the European Union also at times strained ties between Britain and Biden’s White House as London and Brussels struggled to find a divorce deal that would not damage the principles of“His message is going to be the continued strong support for seeing the peace process move forward here,” U.S. National Security Council Senior Director for Europe Amanda Sloat told reporters ahead of a speech by Biden at a Belfast university.
Speaking to reporters before leaving Washington, Biden said he wanted to lend his support to the recent Windsor Framework deal between the European Union and Britain to ease post-Brexit trade barriers between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom. The DUP has said Biden’s visit – the first to the region by a U.S. president in 10 years – will not convince it to end its protest at the trade rules that treat the province differently to the rest of the UK.
“It’s sad that it’s happening in the context of not having a sitting assembly, of the Good Friday Agreement not being fully functional, but we have to make the best of the situation we find ourselves in,” Naomi Long, the leader of the Alliance party, told Irish national broadcaster RTE.
Great News...U.S. as well ?
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