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01/03/2009
Violence Fails To Halt US Investment
The Stormont Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness is expected to attend an announcement later today that millions of US dollars are being earmarked for potential investment in Northern Ireland.
Mr McGuinness is in America with First Minister Peter Robinson who is today due to visit Chicago for talks with US firms that employ people in Northern Ireland.
The two leading NI Executive politicians will then join US representatives and the Taoiseach Brian Cowen in Washington DC for a series of St Patrick's Day events hosted by President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden.
In advance of today's funding announcement, Mr McGuinness said that despite recent dissident murders people in the US understood there was opposition to groups derailing the peace process
He was speaking as the New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli - who controls the pension funds of public workers from New York - was expected to make known his financial package of investment in Northern Ireland.
(BMcC/JM)
Mr McGuinness is in America with First Minister Peter Robinson who is today due to visit Chicago for talks with US firms that employ people in Northern Ireland.
The two leading NI Executive politicians will then join US representatives and the Taoiseach Brian Cowen in Washington DC for a series of St Patrick's Day events hosted by President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden.
In advance of today's funding announcement, Mr McGuinness said that despite recent dissident murders people in the US understood there was opposition to groups derailing the peace process
He was speaking as the New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli - who controls the pension funds of public workers from New York - was expected to make known his financial package of investment in Northern Ireland.
(BMcC/JM)
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