Taoiseach of Ireland Micheál Martin applauded President Donald Trump’s push for peace in Ukraine during their Oval Office meeting Wednesday.
Martin underscored Trump’s efforts to bring about peace in a general sense while thanking him for his hospitality at the start of the meeting.
“I commend you in terms of the work that you’re doing, particularly in terms of the pursuit of peace, which we discussed earlier,” Martin said. “I think that’s going well.”
While fielding questions from the press, Martin spoke about Trump’s “peace initiatives” while drawing on the peace process Ireland went through in the 1990s after decades of The Troubles.
Martin said:
Can I just say… to pay tribute to the President on the peace initiatives, the one thing we’ve learned in Ireland about the peace process… and I recall back in the early ’90s when the first tentative…
