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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Oliver Browning

Watch as Bill and Hillary Clinton mark 25 years of Good Friday Agreement alongside Tony Blair in Belfast

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Bill and Hillary Clinton marked 25 years of the Northern Irish peace deal at a three-day conference at Belfast’s Queen’s University.

Former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, former UK prime minister Tony Blair and former Irish PM Bertie Ahern spoke on Monday 17 April, addressing the anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.

Mr Clinton, who recently called the day the peace deal was struck “one of the happiest days of my presidency, indeed of my entire life,” joined his wife Hillary at the university, where the former US secretary of state is chancellor.

Former US senator George Mitchell, who is 89 and fighting leukaemia, has also made the trip to Belfast, where as chairman of negotiations over two arduous years he was essential to striking the accord.

The three-day gathering caps commemorations that included a flying visit last week by Joe Biden.

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