American day

Weber Shandwick was very pleased to support yesterday’s Independence Day celebrations at the United States Consul General’s Residence in Belfast.

It was a wonderful event on a glorious day. Susan Elliot who leaves Belfast next month to take up a new post in Moscow gave an emotional speech to a packed lawn. It is a testament to her and the quiet work the consulate does here that so many people from so many diverse backgrounds were there to mark the US idependence from Britain.

There has been a good bit of chat in recent months about how the North matures it’s relationship with the States. Whether it is time to try and identify ways in which we can return some of the support that has been so generously given. A Friends of America group might be a possibility so might a more structured trade or commerce body.