President Joe Biden arrived in Belfast Tuesday evening to celebrate that anniversary, but few expect him to resolve a new political crisis that has rattled the peace deal and put Northern Ireland&#…
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — American grit was essential to getting Northern Ireland’s warring sides to make peace 25 years ago with the Good Friday Agreement.
But he’s not scheduled to visit Stormont, seat of the Northern Ireland Assembly. It has been suspended since the Democratic Unionist Party, which formed half of a power-sharing government, walked out a year ago over a post-Brexit trade dispute. “President Biden is continuing on in a long tradition of American presidents who’ve maintained an interest in the peace process in Northern Ireland,” she said. “They see themselves as co-guarantors of the Good Friday Belfast Agreement, which means that they are particularly keen to see the British-Irish relationship be a good one and a close one.”
“Even the night of the agreement, he was on the phone a number of times urging the participants to do the right thing and find that elusive agreement,” said Daniel Mulhall, a former Irish ambassador to the U.S. and the U.K. Small armed dissident groups continue to mount occasional attacks. On Tuesday police found four suspected pipe bombs in a cemetery in Londonderry, near where youths threw gasoline bombs and set a police vehicle on fire on Easter Monday.
After much wrangling, Britain and the EU struck a deal in February to remove many of those checks — an agreement welcomed by the U.S., which had urged London and Brussels to end their post-Brexit feud. The DUP, though, says it doesn’t go far enough and has refused to return to government.
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