(ANSA) - LONDON, APRIL 12 - Peace in Northern Ireland "was not inevitable", it was the result of a hard negotiating effort and of those who were committed to it.
This was underlined by President Joe Biden in Belfast by celebrating 25 years of the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement at Ulster University as a historic success.
Biden praised the mediation then conducted by US Senator George Mitchell recalling his words on the negotiations: "700 days of failures and one of success".
He then reiterated that protecting that agreement remains "a priority" for the US, promising new economic support to Ulster: "Peace and economic opportunities go together".
"Brexit has created complex challenges in Northern Ireland."
American President Joe Biden said this in his speech at Ulster University in Belfast, applauding the Windsor Framework, the Northern Ireland Protocol revision agreement recently reached between London and Brussels with the post-Brexit revision.
Biden said he hoped that the prolonged local political deadlock will be broken and the institutions "emerge from the paralysis" to resume functioning, as well as launching an appeal to definitively close the path of violence.
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