<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">US President Joe Biden will urge Prime Minister Liz Truss to work with the EU to resolve tensions around post-Brexit trading arrangements in Northern Ireland, the White House has said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>They will hold their first bilateral meeting on Wednesday, after Ms Truss travelled to New York for a UN summit.</div><div><br></div><div>Tensions between the two leaders have emerged over controversial UK plans to override the Northern Ireland Protocol.</div><div><br></div><div>Ms Truss has said she will not allow problems with the deal to "drift".</div><div><br></div><div>Speaking to reporters in New York, she said the UK must fix issues preventing the formation of a new government in Northern Ireland and ensure "free-flowing trade east to west as well as north to south".</div><div><br></div><div>Both Mr Biden and Ms Truss have said a negotiated resolution to the row over the protocol - which was signed when Boris Johnson was prime minister - between London and Brussels is preferable.</div><div><br></div><div>The basics</div><div><br></div><div>► The Northern Ireland Protocol is part of the Brexit deal: it means lorries don't face checkpoints when they go from Northern Ireland (in the UK) to the Irish Republic (in the EU)</div><div><br></div><div>► Instead, when goods arrive in Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK (England, Scotland and Wales), they are checked against EU rules</div><div><br></div><div>► The UK and the EU chose this arrangement because the Irish border is a sensitive issue due to Northern Ireland's troubled political history</div><div><br></div><div>The Northern Ireland Protocol is the post-Brexit agreement which allows for special trading arrangements between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.</div><div><br></div><div>It keeps Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods, avoiding the need for a hard border between the UK and Ireland after Brexit.</div><div><br></div><div>But it has been a source of tension since it came into force at the start of 2021. - BBC</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>