Biden will mark the 25th anniversary of a landmark peace accord in Northern Ireland before heading to Ireland, his ancestral homeland, as part of a four-day trip.
Biden plans to head to Belfast on Tuesday to “mark the tremendous progress” since the signing of the U.S.-brokered Good Friday Agreement, which largely ended 30 years of sectarian violence between pro-Ireland Catholics and pro-Britain Protestants, the White House said.
Biden is scheduled to arrive in Ireland next Wednesday. That leg of his trip will include an address in County Mayo, on the country’s west coast, “to celebrate the deep, historic ties that link” Americans and the Irish. Officials have compared the Ireland portion of Biden’s trip to one he took in 2016, near the end of his tenure as vice president under President Barack Obama. Biden, accompanied by his siblings, his daughter and some of his grandchildren, spent six days in Ireland, including stops in his ancestral hometowns.
Neither does Biden plan to attend the coronation of Charles next month, when first lady Jill Biden will lead the U.S. delegation to the United Kingdom. Biden’s decision has draw some scrutiny, but it is not unusual, given that no previous U.S. president has attended a British monarch’s coronation, U.S. officials say.
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