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The Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH), the largest Irish American organization in the US, has written to President Joe Biden urging him to fill the vacant Northern Ireland Special Envoy position.
The AOH wrote to President Biden on April 10, the 23rd anniversary of the singing of the Good Friday Agreement, to express their concern that increasing violence and inflammatory rhetoric by senior leaders of the Unionist community are a threat to the over two decades of peace the Good Friday Agreement has delivered.
Prior to the AOH letter, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said during a press briefing on April 8 that the Biden Administration is concerned by the violence in Northern Ireland, and we join the British, Irish, and Northern Irish leaders in their calls for calm.