UK’s top priority is to protect N. Ireland peace, foreign minister Cleverly tells U.S.

LONDON (Reuters) – Foreign minister James Cleverly told U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Britain’s top priority was to protect the Good Friday Agreement, a government spokesperson said on Wednesday.

“He (Cleverly) explained the Protocol is, however, causing real problems in Northern Ireland which we must fix,” the spokesperson said in a statement.

Cleverly met with Blinken at the U.N.’s General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.

(Reporting by William James and Farouq Suleiman)

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