Taoiseach Leo Varadkar will meet the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in New York later to discuss Brexit.
After a day mainly dealing with climate change yesterday, the Government's focus at the UN General Assembly today will shift back towards Brexit.
Mr Varadkar is meeting Mr Johnson for the second time in a matter of weeks, after the British Prime Minister travelled to Dublin earlier this month.
The meeting on the sidelines of the General Assembly will be a chance for the Taoiseach to hear any update on the British position in negotiations, after Mr Johnson's government submitted informal proposals to the EU for discussion last week.
Ahead of the meeting, Leo Varadkar has insisted the stance of Ireland and the EU hasn't changed.
He said: "There are some people in Britain who took the view that sooner or later the French, Germans and big countries would gang up on Ireland - that's never happened.
"There are also some people who may believe at the last minute that Ireland would somehow give up or fold our position - that's not going to happen."
Leo Varadkar met European Council President Donald Tusk yesterday, with both leaders agreeing that nothing sufficient to replace the backstop has been suggested by the UK so far.
Standing together with PM @LeoVaradkar in New York. We continue looking for how to avoid a disorderly brexit. pic.twitter.com/Q8XoKvu8vY
— Charles Michel (@eucopresident) September 23, 2019
After a meeting with Mr Johnson yesterday, Mr Tusk suggested: "No breakthrough. No breakdown. No time to lose."
It's unlikely the meeting today will bring forward anything significantly new, but it does continue the intensified pace of negotiations that we have seen in recent weeks.
