Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US Home of Representatives, landed in Shannon Airport as we speak for a gathering with US Ambassador to Eire, Claire Cronin.
s Pelosi landed in Eire a day after heading a congressional go to to Armenia amidst rising tensions and army clashes with Azerbaijan prior to now week.
Ms Pelosi was welcomed to Shannon Airport by ambassador Cronin earlier than the pair held a gathering the place they mentioned “the significance of the UK & EU reaching a negotiated resolution on the Northern Eire Protocol,” ambassador Cronin mentioned on Twitter.
“A decision can be a internet win for the area’s financial system and political stability within the long-term – for all its communities,” Ms Cronin mentioned.
In Might of this 12 months, Speaker Pelosi issued a press release reaffirming the US authorities’s help for the protocol and mentioned it was “deeply regarding” the UK have been seeking to “unilaterally discard it”.
President Biden additionally impressed upon Prime Minister Liz Truss the significance of discovering a diplomatic resolution to the stand-off of their first telephone name two weeks in the past.
In her assertion earlier this 12 months, Ms Pelosi mentioned it was “completely essential” to make sure that “there stays no bodily border between the Irish Republic and Northern Eire”.
Ms Pelosi additionally described the Good Friday Settlement (GFA) as a bedrock of peace and “a beacon of hope to the complete world”.
The way forward for any commerce offers between the US and UK “can’t be assured” if the UK “chooses to undermine” the GFA.
“Negotiated agreements just like the Protocol protect the essential progress and stability cast by the Good Friday Accords, which proceed to get pleasure from robust bipartisan and bicameral help in the US Congress.
“As I’ve acknowledged in my conversations with the Prime Minister, the Overseas Secretary and Members of the Home of Commons, if the UK chooses to undermine the Good Friday Accords, the Congress can’t and won’t help a bilateral free commerce settlement with the UK,” Ms Pelosi mentioned in her assertion.
The US Speaker has been to Armenia this week, the place she condemned the Azerbaijani assaults on cities properly contained in the disputed border of the neighbours.
“I delivered remarks in Yerevan on the Cafesjian Middle for the Arts to make it clear that America stands with Armenia. Within the ongoing battle towards autocracy all over the world, we’ll at all times help democracy and freedom.
“Throughout this troublesome time, we should have hope. We will discover hope within the story of Armenia, which is certainly one of resilience and energy,” Ms Pelosi mentioned.
