Intergovernmental Conference (Lisbon)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Defence – in the House of Commons at 3:30 pm on 22 October 2007.

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Photo of Mike Gapes Mike Gapes Chair, Foreign Affairs Committee, Chair, Foreign Affairs Committee 3:30, 22 October 2007

I welcome the agreement by 27 sovereign countries. The Prime Minister referred to the appointment of a high representative for foreign and security policy. Will he confirm that that individual will not be the Foreign Minister, that the representatives of the European external action service will not form a foreign ministry, and that we will not have European Union embassies but EU missions throughout the world?