Biden began his day in Northern Ireland to mark 25 years since the Good Friday peace agreement – where he hailed the “tremendous progress” since the deal was signed in 1998.
He delivered a key note speech as he opened the new Ulster University campus in Belfast – his only official engagement in Northern Ireland – and he called for politicians to restore the power-sharing government.
The US president also met Prime Minister Rishi Sunak before briefly speaking to some of Stormont’s political party leaders. After leaving Belfast early yesterday afternoon, he flew on Air Force One to Dublin and was met by Taoiseach(Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar, before travelling to meet distant relatives in County Louth on Ireland’s east coast where he paid homage to his Irish heritage.
Later there were shouts of “welcome home, Joe” when Biden arrived in Dundalk to address an audience, a few miles from the Northern Irish border.
Source – BBC News
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