despite its roots Irishremembers during introduction speech President in January 2021 United States of America, Joe Biden, He had not yet been to the island of Ireland. Eighty-year-old Biden landed for the first time at his ancestral birthplace on Tuesday in Air Force One for a four-day trip as part of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the signing of the peace agreements. End three decades of armed conflict between Irish Catholic nationalist republicans and British Protestant unionists in Northern Ireland, a British territory on the island of Ireland.
President Biden will meet with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the regional minister in Belfast this Wednesday. Chris Heaton-Harris. He will also meet with representatives of Northern Ireland’s leading parties, two republicans, two trade unionists and the Alliance Party, which does not identify with any of the two communities and has grown the most in recent years. aim facilitate the removal of political blockade The region caused by the Ulster Unity Party (DUP) refusal to form a joint government with the Republicans until the effects of Brexit in the region ease.
Sunak renegotiated the Brexit deal with the European Union (EU) and eventually agreed to it. North Ireland It would remain within the single European and UK markets, allowing for the elimination of the internal border created by Boris Johnson and the Brexit protocol, which isolated Northern Ireland on the island of Ireland. It won’t be easy for Biden because of the DUP, as he is the only party to refuse to sign the 1998 peace accords.
I look forward to celebrating my anniversary in Belfast. United States commitment To keep the peace and promote prosperity,” said Biden, from Washington on the steps of Air Force One before departing for Belfast. He will then deliver a speech from the University of Ulster.
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Biden comes surrounded by an extraordinary environment. safety device por fear that the fragmented groups of the IRA will commit a crime attack the police On Monday, a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a police car during an illegal march. fallen republicans In the unsuccessful 1916 Easter Uprising against British rule in Ireland. And yesterday they found four homemade bombs in a cemetery. Two weeks ago, the British secret services increased the terrorist threat in the region from level three to level four (out of five overall) after a police officer allegedly opened fire at close range at the hands of republican dissidents.
On Wednesday afternoon, after his speech at the university, Biden will travel to Dublin, Republic of Ireland, to meet with Irish President and Prime Minister Leo Varadkar and Michael D. Higgins. This trip contains a political but also a personal motivation, because its purpose get down to your roots. Biden wants to meet his Irish relatives. Tomorrow he will travel to the western island town of Ballina, where his ancestors were born and where his great-great-grandfather Patrick Blewitt left for the United States. His great-great-grandfather was one of a half million Irish who migrated from Ireland to Pennsylvania amid the Great Famine caused by the destruction of the island’s potato crop between 1847 and 1849. More than a million citizens died of starvation. and illness and a half million managed to leave.
Patrick Blewitt sold 27,000 bricks used to build St Muredach’s Cathedral in Ballina. The money raised was used to buy boat tickets to the United States for his entire family. The population of the Republic of Ireland is five million, and that of the United States of America thirty-five million are of Irish descent. Biden will also deliver a few words from St Muredach’s Cathedral.