Foley to resign ambassadorship after U.S. presidential poll
WASHINGTON, United States - File photo shows U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley who said he will step down after the country's presidential election in November, according to reports by U.S. media Aug. 21. ''I don't have any desire to serve for any extended period,'' Foley told reporters at his official residence in Tokyo. The 71-year-old former U.S. House of Representatives speaker was dispatched to Japan in November 1997 to assume the ambassadorship as a successor to former Vice President Walter Mondale.
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