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Irish foreign min @simoncoveney rules out any "keyhole surgery" to the Withdrawal Agreement, and says Ireland will not accept any unilateral exit clause to the Irish backstop or an expiry date.
Officials say Coveney also raised with @Jeremy_Hunt an interview he did with Gazeta Wyborcza in Poland last wk when they met on the margins of todays foreign mins mtg. Officials allege the UK is briefing against Ireland in European capitals, trying to isolate it over the backstop
Speaking to@rtenews Mr Coveney said: “The responsibility to resolve this problem…needs to lie where the problem is, which is in London, not Dublin. We wd be very foolish if we allowed the onus to solve that problem to switch away from Westminster to Dublin.
" We will not be steamrolled in this process."
Mr Coveney accused some in Westminster of trying to replace the backstop with "alternative arrangements" when those arrangements had not yet been tested. “That is a very unreasonable ask,” he said.
