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The 2021 Atlantic Charter underscores that, with similar values and combined strength, the two countries will work together to face the enormous challenges facing the planet – from COVID and climate change to maintaining global security.

Biden, who is of Irish descent, is also concerned that Brexit could undermine the Good Friday Agreement, the 1998 deal?facilitated by the United?States?that?brought peace to Northern Ireland, which is part of the U.K.

Under the Brexit deal, Northern Ireland remains party to the EU's single market,yet is no longer part of the?union, which means a customs border must be?implemented. The Biden administration wants to ensure that nothing in Brexit could endanger prospects for peace.

Biden’s support for the Good Friday Agreement is “rock-solid,” Sullivan told VOA.

“That agreement must be protected, and any steps that?imperil?or undermine it will not be welcomed by the United States," said Sullivan. He would not?say whether Johnson is undermining the agreement.

Despite these tensions, Biden is very committed to anchoring the G-7 in the U.S.-U.K. partnership, said Vinjamuri. “Really using America's deep and historic relationship with Britain to affirm the values of democracy, of liberalism, of freedom.”

Johnson's government has just concluded an integrated review of its foreign policy strategy, which included a reaffirmation of the special relationship between the two allies.