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The top U.S. diplomat for European affairs, Wess Mitchell, has resigned, according to his resignation letter seen by Reuters on Tuesday at a time of strains in the trans-Atlantic relationship over U.S. President Donald Trump’s policies, Reuters reported.

In the letter to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo dated Jan. 4, Mitchell said he felt he had completed his goals for the post and wanted to spend more time with his young family.

He will leave the post on Feb. 15, according to the State Department.

In his resignation letter, Mitchell said he had helped to craft the administration’s European strategy and reorganize the European bureau at the State Department.

“I am proud of what we have accomplished in creating and beginning to implement the Europe Integrated Strategy in support of the National Security Strategy and National Defense Strategy,” he wrote. “The emphasis that these strategies place on the need to prepare our country and the nations of the West for sustained competition with big-power rivals is both urgently necessary and long overdue,” he added.

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