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The American president Joe Biden has arrived in the United Kingdom preceded by the controversy before his first meeting with Boris Johnson.

According to

The Times

, Biden has used diplomatic channels to accuse the "premier" of "inflaming" tensions in Ulster and ask him to assume the commitments made with the EU in the Irish Protocol.


The news of the "reprimand" from the Biden Administration ("démarche", in diplomatic terms) has transpired in the run-up to the G7 summit that starts on Thursday in Cornwall and a day after the lack of agreement between the British chief negotiator David Frost and the Vice-President of the European Commission Maros Sefcovic, meeting in London.


Joe Biden

, anti-Brexit and with Irish ancestry

, calls for the role of the United States as guarantor of the 1998 Good Friday Peace Agreement and has expressed concern about the recent outbreaks of violence in the streets of Belfast in early April that ended with more than

70 policemen injured.


"Any step that endangers or subverts the Good Friday Agreement concerns us," National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said on board Air Force One, hours before Biden's arrival on British soil. "The president has not issued threats or formulated ultimatums," Sullivan stressed. "But he has been very clear in underlining his firm belief that the agreement is the basis for peaceful coexistence in Northern Ireland and therefore must be protected."


The formal protest by the Biden Administration actually came on June 3, when the highest diplomatic representative in London, Yael Lempert (in the absence of the appointment of a new ambassador), held a heated meeting with negotiator David Frost. According to an internal report on the meeting, Lempert accused the British government of using "inflammatory rhetoric" on the Irish Protocol and urged an agreement with the EU on the

introduction of merchandise controls

in Northern Irish ports.


According to

The Times

, Lempert even offered the possible mediation of Washington in the negotiations, which reached a new deadlock on Wednesday, with more than thirty pending issues and the open conflict due to the imminent end of the "grace period" for the sending of meat products from Great Britain to Northern Ireland (popularly known as the "sausage war").


The Biden Administration has also expressed its high concern about possible outbreaks of violence beginning July 12, when the season of


"Orangemen" parades

begins

, which traditionally provoke street clashes between unionists and Republicans.

The issue of Northern Ireland threatens in any case to cloud the atmosphere of the G7 summit, which Boris Johnson intended to use as a

shuttle for the United Kingdom's world leadership

in the face of mass vaccination against Covid or on issues such as climate change or tax minimum to the tech giants.

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