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British, Irish govts agree to June meeting on Northern Ireland

Irish and EU flags are pictured outside the EU Commission
Irish and EU flags are pictured outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels

DUBLIN (Reuters) – British and Irish government ministers are to meet for a formal summit on Northern Ireland in June in the first British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference in two years, a spokesman for the Irish government said on Wednesday.

The decision was made at a meeting on Wednesday between Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney and Britain’s minister for Northern Ireland Brandon Lewis in Dublin, where they discussed disagreements over Britain’s EU exit deal.

The British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference was created as part of Northern Ireland’s 1998 peace deal.

(Reporting by Conor Humphries; Editing by Hugh Lawson)