CARBIS BAY (England), June 11 ― British Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed US President Joe Biden yesterday as “a big breath of fresh air”, and praised his determination to work with allies on important global issues ranging from climate change and Covid-19 to security. Johnson did not draw...
CARBIS BAY , June 11 ― British Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed US President Joe Biden yesterday as “a big breath of fresh air”, and praised his determination to work with allies on important global issues ranging from climate change and Covid-19 to security.
“It’s a big breath of fresh air,” Johnson said of a meeting that lasted about an hour and 20 minutes. The two leaders did not have a joint briefing after the meeting: Johnson spoke to British media while Biden made a speech about a US plan to donate half a billion vaccines to poorer countries.Biden, who is proud of his Irish heritage, was keen to prevent difficult negotiations between Brussels and London undermining a 1998 US-brokered peace deal known as the Good Friday Agreement that ended three decades of bloodshed in Northern Ireland.
Asked if Biden had made his alarm about the situation in Northern Ireland very clear, he said: “No he didn't.
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