US President Joe Biden landed around 10:30 p.m. this Tuesday in Belfast, where he will begin a four-day tour of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland to remember the need to “keep peace” on the island. , which celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday agreements, the text that ended three decades of conflict. The British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, came to receive the President of the United States upon his arrival at the airport.
Biden, of Irish roots, made these statements before boarding Air Force One, in Maryland (United States), bound for the capital of Northern Ireland. The Democratic president insisted that his “big priority” is to ensure that “the Irish agreements and the Windsor agreement remain in place, that the peace is maintained.”
For now, the US president has been careful not to make appeals that could upset unionists, who are very sensitive to external pressure and aware that the relationship between Washington and London has not been the best in recent years, especially during the mandates from Boris Johnson and Lizz Truss for their threats to take unilateral steps to alter the Brexit deals, censured by Biden.
Meanwhile, the Northern Irish Police (PSNI) has deployed a strong security device before the arrival of the president, the “most important in almost ten years”, according to what their commanders have explained to the media.
