Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US Home of Representatives, landed in Shannon Airport immediately 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 previously 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 answer on the Northern Eire Protocol,” ambassador Cronin stated on Twitter.
“A decision could be a web win for the area’s economic system and political stability within the long-term – for all its communities,” Ms Cronin stated.
In Could of this 12 months, Speaker Pelosi issued an announcement reaffirming the US authorities’s assist for the protocol and stated it was “deeply regarding” the UK have been trying to “unilaterally discard it”.
President Biden additionally impressed upon Prime Minister Liz Truss the significance of discovering a diplomatic answer to the stand-off of their first telephone name two weeks in the past.
In her assertion earlier this 12 months, Ms Pelosi stated 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 your 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 necessary progress and stability cast by the Good Friday Accords, which proceed to take pleasure in sturdy bipartisan and bicameral assist in america Congress.
“As I’ve said in my conversations with the Prime Minister, the International 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 assist a bilateral free commerce settlement with the UK,” Ms Pelosi stated in her assertion.
The US Speaker has been to Armenia this week, the place she condemned the Azerbaijani assaults on cities effectively 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 in opposition to autocracy all over the world, we’ll all the time assist democracy and freedom.
“Throughout this tough time, we will need to have hope. We are able to discover hope within the story of Armenia, which is one in all resilience and energy,” Ms Pelosi stated.
