Dublin (EFE) deliver a long-awaited intervention in the national Parliament.
The meeting at the official residence of Áras an Uachtaráin with Higgins, who holds a mainly representative position, has a great symbolic content since both plan to plant some trees together and ring the so-called “peace bell”, installed in 2008 on the occasion of tenth anniversary of the Good Friday agreement.
That historic pact, which put an end to the conflict on the island of Ireland, will be the central point of the speech that Biden will deliver in the afternoon in the Irish Parliament, meeting in joint session, where he will praise the cooperation between Ireland and the United States to advance democracy , peace, security and prosperity, advanced the White House.
The Democratic president will thus become the fourth US president to address both houses in Dublin, after John Fistgerald Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.
Visit to the town of his maternal family
Before, Biden plans to meet with the Irish Prime Minister, the Christian Democrat Leo Varadkar, whom he already received at the White House in March during Saint Patrick’s Day, the patron saint of Ireland.
Both leaders will discuss their bilateral relations, the legacy of the Good Friday agreement 25 years after its signing (April 10, 1998) and the current political crisis in Northern Ireland, where the power-sharing government between nationalists and unionists is suspended. for a year over their differences over Brexit.
The day will conclude with a gala dinner at Dublin Castle.
The US president will return to the United States on Saturday morning, but before closing the visit on Friday in County Mayo (northwest), in the small town of Ballina, where part of his maternal family also comes from.
Biden will deliver a speech at Ballina Cathedral to celebrate the strong ties the United States and Ireland have.