U.S. House Speaker Pelosi cautions Britain over Northern Irish peace deal


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  • Friday, 17 Sep 2021

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks on "state of American democracy" during an event at Chatham House in London, Britain September 17, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Nicholson

LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi cautioned Britain on Friday that if the Northern Irish peace deal was destroyed then there would be no post-Brexit trade deal with the United States.

The United States has expressed grave concern that a row between London and Brussels over the implementation of the 2020 Brexit treaty could undermine the Good Friday accord, which effectively ended three decades of violence.

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