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Welcome to the website of the President of Ireland.

Welcome to the website of the President of Ireland.

Ireland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney TD, and Minister for European Affairs, Thomas Byrne TD, have joined Council of Europe leaders today in welcoming the publication of a report on the future of the Council of Europe by a High-Level Reflection Group chaired by Ireland’s former President Mary Robinson.

Since the U.S. created the Summit of the Americas process in 1994 the summits have been burdened by international bureaucrats pushing for taxpayer-funded, statist development programs and hijacked by Hugo Chavez and other anti-American, anti-globalization activists. In its place, the Bush Administration should immediately announce a Western Hemisphere Trade Summit with the U.S.'s FTA partners, including Panama and Colombia.

The concept of ‘Asia for Asians’ has been forcefully advocated by China in recent years, with the most well-known case made by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2014.