Ireland

Mr. Mitchell is the Vice-Chairman of the EU delegation to the ACP (African Caribbean Pacific) – EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. He was Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach and the Department of Foreign Affairs with special responsibility for European Affairs (and preparation for the IGC in 1996). Mr. Mitchell also served for the second time as Fine Gael Front Bench Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs from June 2002 to October 2004.