Bill Clinton

The former US president recalled late-night phone calls in the closing stages of the historic negotiations.

Mr Clinton recalled: “He said, ‘you got me in to this part-time job, this is the most onerous part-time job in history’. I said: ‘George, you love it and so do I. Mr Clinton said that Mr Mitchell described his role in the negotiations as “the most onerous part-time job in history”. “How can we live together? In the late stages of the negotiations, Mr Clinton said he was on the phone late into the night. How can we work together?

The former US president spoke to Prime Time to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.

“I think what Mr Putin did was very wrong and I believe Europe and the United States should continue to support Ukraine. And I feel terrible about it because Ukraine is a very important country.” I said, look, it’s your peace, you have to make it. Clinton also said in the interview that he feels a “personal stake” in Ukraine due to his involvement in the country’s decision to destroy its nuclear weapons in exchange for a promise from Russia to respect its territory. “There’s a lot of work to be done in Northern Ireland, to deal with the continuing challenges that face the people and those who were elected should get about the business of doing that.” FORMER US PRESIDENT Bill Clinton has said he believes Brexit “aimed right at the heart” of peace in Northern Ireland, and that it is a “miracle” that the UK’s exit from the EU did not bring down the Good Friday Agreement.

In an interview to be broadcast on RTÉ's Prime Time, former US President Bill Clinton and former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will speak the impact ...

“How can we live together? How can we work together? So that’s the way it was. “I do think Northern Ireland is a very different place than it was 25 years ago, it's just that Brexit set it back, to be blunt, creating a very difficult situation for Northern Ireland in the midst of separating from the European Union. She explained: “It's disappointing in that one always hopes that a peace agreement will be followed, not only in the letter of the agreement but in the spirit of it. It is a “miracle” that the Good Friday Agreement “survived” the Brexit process that “set Northern Ireland back”, the Clintons have said.

Former US President Bill Clinton has said it is a “miracle” that the Good Friday agreement survived Brexit.

“They called me again and I was on the phone until about 2.30am in the morning, walking through all the details with everyone, especially Gerry Adams. “We all knew we were coming to the eleventh hour. Mr Clinton urged the Unionist community to engage, saying “there’s something to work with here”. And then the next step will be to stand up a government...There's a lot of work to be done in Northern Ireland to deal with the continuing challenges that face the people, and those who were elected should get about the business of doing that." That looks like it's on the way to being resolved, and hopefully it will be. But the peace held, the Irish peace held,” he said.

A DUP MLA has indicated that he feels a new revised version of the Windsor Framework can be accomplished if the party perseveres, after Bill Clinton urged ...

How can we work together? In it, he said: “I think we should say [to the DUP]: ‘Look, there’s something to work with here’. "How can we live together?