The UK Prime Minister will close a three-day conference at Queen’s University Belfast on the 25th anniversary of the peace deal that ended decades of bloodshed with this speech
London, Thanasis Gavos
The commitment that he will do “everything” to implement “the real promise” of the Friday peace agreement in Northern Ireland will be given late in the afternoon by Rishi Sunak in a speech in Belfast.
The UK Prime Minister will close a three-day conference at Queen’s University Belfast to mark the 25th anniversary of the peace deal that ended decades of bloodshed.
Mr Sunak will emphasize that the vision of the agreement is described in the phrase of the text about “sustainable economic growth” and addressing the problems of “a divided society”.
As he will say, that vision will be fulfilled by his government’s measures to attract more investment to Northern Ireland.
“This is my commitment to you: I will use the full power of the British Government to help you make this one of the best places in the world to start and grow a business, create jobs, train and to learn new skills and attract investment”, are the words that Mr Sunak will use.
He will also salute the “courage, imagination and tenacity” of the deal’s architects, many of whom are present at the conference, including US Senator George Mitchell and then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Before Mr. Sunak, the former Min. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, European Council President Charles Michel, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, former US President Bill Clinton and Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar.
The speeches and the closing of the conference will be followed by a formal dinner for 200 guests at Hillsborough Castle.
Present there will be Mr Sunack’s two predecessors Liz Truss and Boris Johnson, who voted against their successor’s recent agreement with the Northern Ireland Commission in the context of Brexit, the so-called Windsor Framework.
However, despite the pressures or urgings exerted in the context of the conference and the visit of the American President Joe Biden last week, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is not convinced to return to local government in order to resume the functioning of the Stormont local parliament. , which has been suspended for more than a year.
The under-functioning of the democratic institutions provided for in the Good Friday Agreement creates concern for the stability of peace in the region.
Source :Skai
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