(MENAFN) The top U.S. diplomat for European affairs, Wess Mitchell, has resigned during strains in the trans-Atlantic relationship over U.S. President Donald Trump's policies.
In the letter to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Mitchell said he felt he had completed his goals for the post and wanted to spend more time with his young family.
There were no indications that Mitchell, a former policy analyst on central and eastern Europe, was resigning out of protest against Trump administration policies.
He was brought on board by former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in 2017 as Trump threatened to withdraw the U.S. from the NATO military alliance and Washington accused Moscow of meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.
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