BELFAST, Northern Ireland—U.S. President Joe Biden has urged politicians in Northern Ireland to sort out their differences and restore the power-sharing executive which was a key part of the Good Friday Agreement, and has warned of the threat posed by the “enemies of peace.”
Biden told an audience at Ulster University on Wednesday the 1998 Good Friday Agreement had taken hard work to achieve and he said, “There were no guarantees that the deal on paper would hold, no guarantees it would be able to deliver the progress we celebrate today.”
He said, “I know the UK’s departure from the European Union presented complex challenges here in Northern Ireland and I encourage the leaders of the UK and the EU to address the issues in a way that serve Northern Ireland’s best interest.”…