Albright denies rumours she’s to become new US ambassador in Prague

Former US Secretary of State, the Czech-born Madeleine Albright, has quashed rumours that she is to become the next American ambassador to Prague. On Tuesday, she told Hospodářské noviny that she did not know where such speculation had come from. She told the paper that she loved the Czech Republic, but denied that she was to be posted to Prague as the next ambassador. On Monday, the newspaper Právo wrote that Ms Albright was to head the US Embassy in Prague, citing diplomatic sources. But on Tuesday, Ms Albright said that she was not aiming for any position whatsoever in the new Obama administration, insisting that she had already done it all, and now just wanted to ‘help’.