THE US President Joe Biden will receive on Friday at White House him Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkaron the occasion of St. Patrick’s Day on March 17, Ireland’s national holiday, its representative announced today.

Biden, who says he is proud of his Irish roots, will take this opportunity to affirm, together with his guest, “the close and historic partnership between the United States and Ireland, as well as the extraordinary ties between our peoples,” he said. Karin Jean-Pierre.

St. Patrick’s Day, in honor of the patron saint of Ireland, is also celebrated in the United States.

The city of Chicago specifically colors the river that runs through it bright green, the color of Ireland, every year for this occasion.

Biden and Varadkar will also underline during the visit “their unwavering commitment to the ‘Good Friday’ peace agreement,” the White House added in a statement.

This agreement, signed on April 10, 1998, ended decades of conflict between Catholic nationalists, who advocated union with the rest of Ireland, and Unionist Protestants, loyal to London.

Joe Biden was also invited on Monday by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to go to Northern Ireland on the occasion of the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the signing of this agreement.

The US president said he has “the intention” to accept the invitation and travel to Northern Ireland for the occasion.