UK and US leaders voice need to defend gains made since 1998 peace accord
Liz Truss wants to settle the post-Brexit row over Northern Ireland before the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday peace deal next Easter, as the UK prime minister seeks to calm tensions with US president Joe Biden on the issue.
Truss and Biden held talks lasting 75 minutes in New York on Wednesday, with both agreeing on the need to defend the gains made in Northern Ireland since the 1998 deal and to restore the power-sharing executive at Stormont.
The dispute over the so-called Northern Ireland protocol has left the region without a government, and has strained relations between London and Washington as well as between Britain and the EU.
