Whereas, on May 5, 2022, elections were held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, the region’s devolved legislature; Whereas, in the 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election, the Sinn Fein party won the largest number of seats, 27 out of 90, entitling the party’s Vice President and former Deputy First Minister, Michelle O’Neill, to accede to the position of First Minister of Northern Ireland; Whereas, following the 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election, the Democratic Unionist Party, which was the largest party prior to the election, has effectively prevented the convening of the new Assembly, the Executive, and the operation of the North/South Ministerial Council; Whereas the Democratic Unionist Party has failed to make explicit its demands for reestablishing the power-sharing government in Northern Ireland, other than its protests against Northern Ireland Protocol, which was brokered by the United Kingdom independent of the devolved government bodies of the United Kingdom, including Northern Ireland, in response to the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union and sets out post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland to ensure an open border on the island of Ireland and in the spirit of protecting the gains of the Northern Ireland peace process; Whereas the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Fein disagree on the merits of the Northern Ireland Protocol, with Sinn Fein generally supportive of the Protocol as a necessary means to maintain an open border with the Republic of Ireland and to uphold the fundamental principles underpinning the Good Friday Agreement; Whereas, on February 27, 2023, the United Kingdom and the European Union announced the Windsor Framework to address challenges posed by the Northern Ireland Protocol; Whereas the Windsor Framework was formally adopted by the United Kingdom and the European Union on March 24, 2023, but the Democratic Unionist Party continues to undermine its full implementation