Belfast Agreement broker George Mitchell starts leukaemia treatment

An email outlining the diagnosis and treatment from the president and chief executive of the Senator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute was obtained by the Portland Press Herald.

In the email to the staff and board, Meg Baxter wrote that the goal of treatment at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is to achieve remission, the newspaper reported.

Mr Mitchell, also a peace envoy in the Middle East focused on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict during President Barack Obama’s administration, is a consultant and former chairman of the global law firm DLA Piper.

He brokered the 1998 Belfast Agreement in Northern Ireland and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1999.

Before his time in Northern Ireland, he served as a US attorney and federal judge.