Joe Biden said he hoped it would not be 'too presumptuous' of him to say that 'the democratic institutions' established by the Good Friday agreement are critical to the future of Northern Ireland and called for the restoration of power sharing.
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Biden delivered the keynote address at Ulster University’s campus on Wednesday to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.

His visit came against the backdrop of a political stalemate in which the devolved Northern Ireland assembly has not been functioning for over a year due to a row over post-Brexit trade arrangements

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