Biden promotes economic opportunity and peace in Northern Ireland.

US President Joe Biden urged Northern Irish political leaders to restore their powersharing government, promising that scores of major US corporations were ready to invest in the region as he marked the 25th anniversary of peace in Belfast. Biden said powersharing remained critical to the future of Northern Ireland and that an effective devolved government would "draw even greater opportunity in this region". The 1998 peace accord was backed by the US and largely ended 30 years of bloodshed between mainly Catholic nationalist opponents and mainly Protestant unionist supporters of British rule.