After his first meeting with Joe Biden before the G7 summit which opens today, Boris Johnson, the British Prime Minister described as "indestructible" the relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States.
"This is a relationship, which you can call the deep and meaningful relationship, whatever you like, the indestructible relationship," he told the BBC, adding: "it's a relationship that has lasted since then. for a very long time and which has played an important role in peace and prosperity in Europe and in the world.
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During their face to face Thursday, the two leaders discussed "25 subjects" in detail, including the disruption induced by Brexit in Northern Ireland.
Boris Johnson played down the displeasure of Joe Biden, proud of his Irish origins, over London's attempts to reverse the "Northern Irish protocol", which avoids the return of a border with Ireland but disrupts supplies between Great Britain and the Northern Irish province.
The Harry Dunn Death Case
Whether it was him, the European Union, Washington, "everyone has a huge interest in ensuring that we keep the essential symmetry of the Good Friday Agreement", which in 1998 ended three decades of conflict. bloody blood between loyalists, attached to the British crown, and Republicans in favor of the reunification of the island.
The Conservative Prime Minister also raised with Joe Biden the case, very followed in the United Kingdom, of the death of Harry Dunn, killed in a road accident caused by the wife of an American diplomat who had quickly returned to the United Kingdom. United States, claiming diplomatic immunity. “Joe Biden is actively involved in this matter,” said Boris Johnson, and “has his own personal reasons for being deeply concerned about this issue”, having lost his first wife and one-year-old daughter in a car accident. car in 1972.