Consul hopeful of a Biden visit

US consul general Susan Elliott has said she hopes Barack Obama or his Irish-American vice-president Joe Biden may visit the north.
The consul also signalled her belief that the new president would send a special envoy to the north as part of continued US support for the political process.

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