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Mondale resigns as Norway consul in Minnesota

The Columbian
Published: January 20, 2010, 12:00am

OSLO (AP) — Norway says former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale has resigned as its honorary consul general in Minnesota.

The Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that Mondale stepped down as of Jan. 15 and has been succeeded by Gary Gandrud, an American lawyer who has served as Mondale’s No. 2 in the honorary consulate since 2007.

Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said “I fully understand that Consul General Mondale, now 82 years old, has decided that he wants to retire.”

Mondale, who has Norwegian-American heritage, was vice president under President Jimmy Carter and later U.S. ambassador to Japan.

He was appointed honorary consul general in 2007, when Norway demoted its Minneapolis consulate to the largely ceremonial honorary status.

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