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The president of United States, Joe Bidenended this Wednesday his brief visit to Northern Ireland on the occasion of the celebration of the signing of the Good Friday Peace Accords that ended in 1998 with three decades of armed conflict. Before heading to Dublin, where the president tried to calm things down in a territory that, 25 years later, is still marked by episodes of violence and the division between Unionists (Protestants and supporters of belonging to the United Kingdom) and Republicans (Catholics and defenders of the unification of Ireland).
To do this, in a speech at the University of Ulster, in Belfasturged Northern Ireland’s political leaders to restore your government of power sharing because this would facilitate the arrival of the main US companies that are ready to invest in the region. Specifically, the investors were willing to “triple” the 2,000 million dollars already invested in the last decade, according to the newspaper Guardian.
“Peace and economic opportunity go hand in hand”, he said before the leaders of the main political formations of the territory, that he has been without an autonomous Executive for a year. In 2022, the nationalists of Sinn Féin won the regional elections for the first time. However, the peace agreements force Catholics and Protestants to govern in coalition. Something that, in full tension due to the consequences that the brexit on Northern Irish soil, Unionists of the Ulster Democratic Party (DUP) they refused to accept.
US President Joe Biden visits Northern Ireland.
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“An effective decentralized government would attract even more opportunities in this region, so I hope that the assembly and the executive are restored soon,” Biden said, before qualifying, with the intention of not interfering, that “that is a judgment that you must make , not me, but I hope it happens.”
Furthermore, in his speech – which under normal conditions he would have delivered in Stormont, the seat of Parliament – the American leader defended the Windsor Framework, a pact recently sealed by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyenand the Sunak government to ease post-trade barriers brexit between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.
US President Joe Biden visits Ireland.
This is precisely one of the main reasons why the DUP refuses to end the political boycott, considering it insufficient and demanding changes to the agreement. In fact, its leader, Jeffrey Donaldsonhas assured that Biden’s visit – the first to the region by a US president in 10 years – has not changed the position of the pro-British formation.
Previously, various members of the ultra-conservative party assured that they would not accept pressure from “an anti-British president.” Protestant misgivings, that the president is not “anti-British” and? “hates the UK”. These criticisms, which have involved the official tour of Northern Ireland, are due to Biden’s Irish origin, who has boasted on more than one occasion of being Irish.
This Thursday, Biden will speak before both houses of the Irish Parliament at Leinster House in Dublin. On Friday, before heading home, she will also have a chance to stop in western County Mayo, where He will meet some of his relatives.
