Chris Heaton-Harris said he remains positive Northern Ireland's power sharing government will be restored soon but unionists need to be happy with the new Brexit deal agreed by the UK and the EU.
Former US president Bill Clinton, whose government was involved in the peace process with the Irish and British governments, has also been in Belfast this week for the anniversary, along with Sir Tony Blair, Joe Biden and former Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern.
Hillary Clinton, the then first lady and more recently US secretary of state, told Sky News on Tuesday she was"privileged to have been a witness to history" but"the jury is out" over whether the agreement needs adjusting due to the current stalemate.Biden makes plea for NI power sharing "I do think [the GFA] was a work of genius to end the conflict and create the structure for self-governance within the appropriate relationship with the UK. And I think that it has worked, except when leaders decided it would no longer work for their own reasons," she said.
"The question is whether leaders themselves, the current generation of leaders, can restore confidence in the ability of the people of Northern Ireland to elect a government that will then actually govern or whether there does, as former prime minister Blair said, have to be some adjustments within the agreement itself. I think the jury is out on that because right now we're all hoping that they will stand up.
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