Beleaguered French foreign minister Michele Alliot-Marie announced her resignation Sunday after weeks of criticism over her contacts with the former Tunisian regime, stressing she had committed no wrongdoing. "While I do not feel that I have committed any wrongdoing, I have decided to leave my job as foreign minister," Alliot-Marie wrote in her resignation letter to President Nicolas Sarkozy, a copy of which was seen by AFP.
"I ask you to accept my resignation," she wrote in the letter which begins with a handwritten "Dear Nicolas."