Brexit process to be formally triggered on March 29

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(Photo: JUSTIN TALLIS, AFP/Getty Images)LONDON ? The process that begins Britain?s exit from the European Union will formally be triggered on 29 March, the British government said Monday.
"We are on the threshold of the most important negotiation for this country for a generation," Brexit Secretary David Davis said in a statement Monday.
A majority of Britons voted to leave the 28-member bloc at a referendum in June.
This file photo taken on June 25, 2016 shows a pedestrian sheltering from the rain beneath a Union flag themed umbrella as they walk near the Big Ben clock face and the Elizabeth Tower at the Houses of Parliament in central London on June 25, 2016.
Sir Tim Barrow, the country`s permanent representative to the EU, told the office of European Council President Donald Tusk that Britain planned to trigger Article 50 of the EU Treaty next Wednesday.