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Second US Envoy Quits over Iraq

A veteran US diplomat has resigned in protest over US policy toward Iraq, becoming the second career foreign service officer to do so in the past month, AFP report says Tuesday.

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A veteran US diplomat has resigned in protest over US policy toward Iraq, becoming the second career foreign service officer to do so in the past month, AFP report says Tuesday.

John Brown, who joined the State Department in 1981, said he resigned because he could not support Washington's Iraq policy, which he said was fomenting a huge rise in anti-US sentiment around the world.

In a resignation letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell, Brown said he agreed with J Brady Kiesling, a diplomat at the US embassy in Athens who quit in February over President George W Bush's apparent intent on fighting Iraq.

"I am joining my colleague John Brady Kiesling in submitting my resignation from the Foreign Service - effective immediately - because I cannot in good conscience support President Bush's war plans against Iraq," he said.

Two senior State Department officials confirmed that Powell had received the letter from Brown, who had served at the US embassies in London, Prague, Krakow, Kiev, Belgrade and Moscow before being assigned to be a diplomat-in-residence at Georgetown University in Washington.

Brown and Kiesling are believed to be the only US diplomats to have resigned from the foreign service over Iraq to date.

Source: Agencies

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