‘We connect with Trump’s office, not opinion’: Little-Pengli

In response to a question about US President Donald Trump Praise for Connor McGregorDeputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengi has said that she is engaged “with the office of the President” instead of her “special personal views”.

She said she has been “very clear” that she wants to end violence against women and girls.

Little-Pengli, as well as Communications Minister Gordon Leone and North Ireland Assembly Speaker Edwin Poots met the US President on Wednesday during St. Patrick’s Day Lunch on Capital Hill.

He insisted that his role as Deputy Minister was “Champion North Ireland” and “attached to the democratically elected President”.

Talking to BBC Perspective Mark Karutors, presenter at Washington DC, Little-Pengli said: “We are attached to the President’s office, we are not engaged on the basis of his special personal views or political views with people.”

He said, “What you think about President Trump, it is a President who is with the ability to decide, which will have a major impact on Northern Ireland,” he said.

Asked if he should separate the man from the office, he replied: “Of course, I think we have to do it.”

The minister said, “When you meet a leader of another country, you are not meeting him because you agree with his political agenda or personal opinion, you are meeting him due to that situation,” the minister said.

He said that if you “enter the field” in terms of “judging people” on your personal opinion or political agenda, “” There will be very few people with whom we will join “.

On Thursday, Little-Pengli was asked on the BBC Radio Ulster Good morning olster Program What President’s comments about Connor McGregor made him uncomfortable Someone who has campaigned Against misunderstandings and violence against women and girls (VAWG).

Last November, McGregor was ordered to pay more than € 248,000 (£ 206,000) in loss after another. Jury found that she had sexually harassed Nikita’s hand,

He said, “We have made incredibly difficult campaigns in Northern Ireland in the case of end violence against women and girls strategy. I take a completely clear stance that all Vawg is wrong,” she said.

When we were asked Tax imports on steel and aluminumThe Deputy Minister said that Northern Ireland should be “realistic” about the situation.

“It is the President of the United States. Northern Ireland is a small place in the world, we have to be realistic about it. So it is important for us to stay here.”

“I worry that there is the risk. That’s why this week has been beneficial,” he said.

“The agency that we have is to ensure and make sure that this issue is on radar for prominent people.

“Can we determine its result completely? No. We can try and make sure that people with influence on major decision makers and policy makers are aware of the issue.”

He urged the UK government to take “immediate steps” on the matter.

Former Trump’s former associate Patrickle Wilson has stated that “there was a tremendous amount of tone deafness by politicians in Northern Ireland”.

In 2018, he was appointed by President Trump, which was to lead the office of the Business Lions, within the office of the Secretary in the US Department of Commerce.

He is currently the vice -president of government relations for MediaTek Inc.

He said, “No one in the world is desperate to know what political leaders in Northern Ireland think about the major crises, because they are not in a position to change it or shape it”, he told the program.

Sin Fen’s first minister Michelle O’Neill Announced in February His party will boycott the incidents of St. Patrick’s Day at the White House on Trump’s stance on the Israeli-Gaja conflict.

The former associate of Trump told The view: “In Gaza, no one is going to see these politicians to save them, to give them homes, to fuck children, to feed the hungry people.

“It’s not just what they do. They have great programs, and I am not trying to move away from it, but it is not within their power. And so it is like a lot of words and not a lot of work.”

He said that some parties in Northern Ireland have “aligned themselves with the most frightening guards of violence”.

Meanwhile, Northern Ireland is to be included in a special international memory program at Mount Vernon next year.

It would make a major part of the 250th anniversary of American independence, where migrants from Northern Ireland played an important role in the birth of the United States.

Mount Vernon is the first US President, George Washington’s former residence.

Community Minister Gordon Leone said that he had a meeting with 250 US Commission and the role that he played in the early years of the US was important to provide a “special status” to Northern Ireland.

Was a notable person from this period John Dunlop, who appeared first copies of the declaration of independenceHe was born in 1747 in Straiben.

Leone said the incident was important and would place Northern Ireland “front and center”.

“This is about putting North Ireland on the world stage and telling people who we are and what we are about.”

The community ministers were eager to emphasize that 17 American presidents had the roots of Ulster Scots.

He said, “This is important because next year the organizers of the party recognize the role that the people of the Ulster played especially in Ulster Scots. We have a big story to tell that the past is not told in the past,” he said.

The announcement has been made after promoting a funding of £ 750,000 for Ulster American Folk Park at County Tyrone.

The project is due to an increase in cultural and heritage links with the US.

The announcement was made on Tuesday during a visit to Smithsonian National Museum of American History at Washington DC.

The museum narrates the story of the migration of people from Ulster to North America in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Leones said: “Our story and the legacy we share with America are worth telling. Our connections make northern Ireland, make a deep echoing tourist destination for many Americans who are willing to learn more about their Ulseter Scots roots.”

You can watch Mark Karuther interview with Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengli, on 22:40 BST on Thursday BBC One Northern Ireland and on BBC iPlayer,