<p><br /> Former US president Bill Clinton has used his visit to Northern Ireland earlier to promote the prospect of American investment in the region.<br /> </p><p><br /> His two-day trip to attend events in Ireland north and south comes ahead of a major Northern Ireland investment conference in Washington next month to be hosted by Hillary Clinton.<br /> </p><p><br /> Mr Clinton will be in Londonderry to meet business leaders currently lobbying to build economic links across the Atlantic.<br /> </p><p><br /> He may also use the visit as an opportunity to honour the contribution of former SDLP leader John Hume to the peace process.<br /> </p><p><br /> The former president will meet First Minister Peter Robinson and deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness at the University of Ulster's Magee College where he will deliver a keynote address to an invited audience.<br /> </p><p><br /> Mr Clinton will travel on to Dublin after the engagement where he will open the Clinton Institute for American studies at University College Dublin.<br /> </p><p><br /> The economic summit organised by US secretary of state Hillary Clinton will take place on October 19 in Washington DC.<br /> </p>
