President Donald Trump on Saturday said he'd like to see a unified Ireland. 

The remarks were made during a visit to the country, where he will meet with leaders and attend a major golf tournament at one of his golf courses, CBS News reported. 

While meeting with Irish Prime Minister Michael Martin in Dublin, Trump said he supported the unification of Ireland with Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom. 

"I don't want to cause any problems, but I'd love to see it unified. I think it would be a fantastic thing. The U.K. will have something to say about it, obviously," Trump said. 

Ireland became an independent Roman Catholic-majority nation a century ago, but a six-county region in the north with a Protestant majority remained part of the United Kingdom. The region faced three decades of violence as Protestant unionists, who wanted to stay British, fought with Catholic nationalists, who wanted to be unified with Ireland.