U.S.' Pelosi warns Britain: No trade deal unless you respect N.Irish peace deal

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LONDON (Reuters) -U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Britain there could be no U.S.-UK trade deal if it proceeds with plans to unilaterally scrap some of the rules governing trade with Northern Ireland.

Britain warned European Union authorities this week that it could discard post-Brexit regulations painstakingly negotiated with Brussels including border checks on some goods shipped from mainland Britain to Northern Ireland.

The trade protocol aims to keep the British-run province, which borders EU member Ireland, in both the United Kingdom's customs territory and the EU's single market.

Pelosi said she viewed the existing agreement as essential to maintaining the 1998 Good Friday peace deal, brokered by the United States to end three decades of conflict in Northern Ireland between Catholic nationalist militants and pro-British Protestant paramilitaries in which around 3,600 people were killed.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-house-speaker-pelosi-warns-094735319.html

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1. I wish I understood all sides of this argument..here is more from

a N Ireland Democratic Unionist Party leader Jeffrey Donaldson..who says the protocols are an impediment to trade..

The DUP has refused to take part in a new power-sharing government until differences over the protocol are resolved. The party finished second behind the nationalist party Sinn Fein in elections for the Northern Ireland Assembly this month.

Micheal Martin, the Republic of Ireland's prime minister, is due to to hold talks with party leaders on Friday in Belfast. Martin said the EU took “decisive action” in October to resolve concerns over the protocol, but the British government has failed to respond.

“This idea that somehow the European Union is being inflexible on this is just not the truth, it doesn’t stack up,” Martin told the BBC, “What has happened now is a certain unilateralism on behalf of the British government saying ‘our way or no way,’ and you don’t negotiate with the European Union on that basis, particularly when you have signed off on the agreement that you now don’t like.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/n-ireland-party-leader-pans-pelosi-s-warning-on-brexit-terms/ar-AAXvxiv?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=195ea507d85a4421b47a674b70929afd