The decision-makers also discussed NATO in their phone call.
of the United States president Joe Biden and the new Prime Minister of Britain Liz Truss share the idea of the importance of keeping the peace in Northern Ireland. The decision-makers spoke by phone on Tuesday shortly after Truss became Britain’s new leader.
Biden, who is of Irish background, has been critical of Britain’s previous prime minister Boris Johnson Brexit policy. Northern Ireland, which belongs to Great Britain, has been at the center of the Brexit negotiations between the European Union and Great Britain, which has strained Britain’s relations with the EU, Ireland and the United States. Northern Ireland has a land border with the EU country Ireland.
Before becoming Prime Minister, Truss served as British Foreign Secretary. He has been pushing Britain’s unilateral change to the Brexit trade agreement with the EU. The EU announced in June that it cannot unilaterally decide to deviate from the content of the protocol.
To the trade agreement the related difficulties go back further than Britain’s departure from the EU, i.e. Northern Ireland’s contentious history and 30 years of bloody civil war. The war between pro-Irish Catholics and pro-British Protestants ended with a complex peace agreement only in 1998.
Johnson’s government justified the solo move by saying that it considers the customs checks agreed between Great Britain and Northern Ireland to be in violation of the 1998 peace agreement. Still at the end of the Brexit push in December 2020, Johnson himself accepted the exact same terms of the agreement, which he later wanted to get rid of.
Fresh in the call, Truss said he looked forward to working closely with the United States, said a spokesman for the Prime Minister’s Office.
Truss expects that the countries will address common challenges. These also include the economic challenges brought about by Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.
According to the spokesperson, Biden and Truss agreed that the countries should promote deep military cooperation through the military alliance NATO and Aukus. Aukus is a military cooperation agreement between Australia, Great Britain and the United States, which was concluded last year.
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