US President Joe Biden will meet British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Northern Irish political leaders in Belfast, kicking off a three-day Irish tour with a speech to mark the 25th anniversary of Northern Ireland's 1998 peace deal
Biden, who is fiercely proud of his Irish heritage, will spend just over half a day in the UK region before travelling south to the Republic of Ireland for two-and-a-half days of speeches and meetings with officials and distant relatives.
Speaking to reporters before leaving Washington, Biden said his priority was to help "keep the peace" as Northern Ireland marks the anniversary of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement that largely endedbetween mainly Catholic opponents and mainly Protestant supporters of British rule. He also said he would seek to make sure 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 UK remains in place.
That deal has so far failed to convince the region's largest pro-British party, the Democratic Unionist Party , to end a boycott of the devolved power-sharing government, a key part of the 1998 peace deal.
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