No US trade deal if UK doesn't honour Northern Ireland peace pact under Brexit, warns Biden
LONDON (REUTERS) - US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has warned the United Kingdom that it must honour the Northern Irish peace deal as it extracts itself from the European Union or there will be no US trade deal. "We can't allow the Good Friday Agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland to become a casualty of Brexit," Mr Biden said in a tweet. "Any trade deal between the US and UK must be contingent upon respect for the Agreement and preventing the return of a hard border. Period." Prime Minister Boris Johnson unveiled legislation last week that would break parts of the Brexit divorce treaty relating to Northern Ireland, blaming the EU for putting a revolver on the table in trade talks and trying to divide the United Kingdom. Mr Biden retweeted a letter from Mr Eliot Engel, chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives, that called on Mr Johnson to honour the 1998 Good Friday peace deal. Mr Engel urged Mr Johnson to "abandon any and all legally questionable and unfair efforts to flout the Northern Ireland protocol of the Withdrawal Agreement." He
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