Tony Blair joins former political ally Bill Clinton as they return to Belfast to mark 25 years since the signing of the Good Friday agreement
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Tony Blair has reunited with former US President Bill Clinton at a major conference in Belfast to mark 25 years since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement.
The pair were previously pictured together in 1997 in Paris as Clinton met with European leaders in signing the NATO Russia Founding Act to help improve relations with Russia.
The former political heads at one time shared an intimate and trusting relationship as shown in transcripts of their conversations between 1997 and 2000, exposed in 2016 by the BBC.
Clinton and Blair were joined on Monday by Northern Ireland’s former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern for a panel discussion chaired by former US secretary and Mr Clinton’s wife, Hillary Clinton.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair (left) walks with former US President Bill Clinton (right) at an event at Queen’s University Belfast
The former political heads at one time shared an intimate and trusting relationship as shown in transcripts of their conversations between 1997 and 2000 (pictured in 1998)
Mrs Clinton is hosting the three-day celebration of the landmark deal at Queen’s University, Belfast, where she is a chancellor.
Addressing the current Stormont stalemate, Mr Blair said Northern Ireland’s leaders ‘know that the right thing to do is, and you should just get on and do it’.
The Good Friday Agreement, signed on the 10 April 1998, ended 30 years of conflict in Northern Ireland and implemented a power-sharing government between nationalists and unionists.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is due to attend the conference later in the week.
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