U.S. President Joe Biden 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.
Powersharing government collapsed over a year agoBELFAST, April 12 - U.S. President Joe Biden will mark theof 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.
The brief Belfast stop comes against the backdrop of the latest political stalemate in which the devolved powersharing government, a key part of the 1998 peace deal, has not met for more than a year due to a row about post-Brexit trade arrangements. "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.
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