US urges importance of negotiations in protocol impasse

Congressman Richard Neal is heading a nine-strong team from the US House of Representatives' Ways and Means Committee, currently in Ireland for a four-day trade visit.

Mr Neal said today that the protocol is not the problem, but that it is made out to be by some and that he addressed such concerns when he and his colleagues met yesterday with the UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss. He added that the United States' Government's views are clear:"President [Joe] Biden, Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi and I have made our position known. Nothing can jeopardise the Good Friday Agreement or any sort of return to a hard border."

"It should be a template for the world, coming up to the 25-year anniversary, it should be celebrated not just on this island but across the world. He said:"Implementing the protocol in full means ending grace periods, with an economic tsunami hitting Northern Ireland. Power sharing only works with cross community consensus.

There is only a short time to save the peace. To avoid conflict the Irish Government must drop it's demands for checks on goods from GB which are consumed in Northern Ireland. Trying to create an unnecessary hard Irish Sea border will end in tears.

The Americans can't do anything at the moment as Biden has lost all leverage.

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