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Neal Statement on the Appointment of Mick Mulvaney as U.S. Special Envoy to Northern Ireland
Washington, DC,
March 8, 2020
Chairman Richard E. Neal made the following statement today after the White House announced that former acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney has been appointed U.S. Special Envoy to Northern Ireland. “The United States played an indispensable role in the peace process and is a co-guarantor of the Good Friday Agreement, the 1998 international peace accord that ended years of conflict on the island of Ireland. With the appointment of a new Special Envoy to Northern Ireland, the United States is demonstrating its ongoing commitment to the region at a critical time, particularly as the implications of Brexit in Ireland, north and south, become known. I welcome the announcement and believe it could help strengthen relations on both sides of the Atlantic,” said Chairman Richard E. Neal. Congressman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) is the Chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Co-Chairman of the Friends of Ireland Caucus in the United States Congress.
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