The United States on Monday urged the United Kingdom to
"continue negotiations in good faith"
with the European Union to break the impasse over Northern Ireland's post-Brexit status.
In a phone call, the head of diplomacy Antony Blinken pleaded with his British counterpart Liz Truss for a
"solution that preserves the gains of the Good Friday Agreement"
signed in 1998 to end three decades of violence between unionists , especially Protestants, and Republicans, with a Catholic majority.
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