 Complete the following phrase:  In June 1956, Molotov was removed as Foreign Minister; on 29 June 1957, he was expelled from the Presidium Politburo after a failed attempt to remove Khrushchev as First Secretary. Although Molotovs faction initially won a vote in the Presidium 74 to remove Khrushchev, the latter refused to resign unless a Central Committee plenum decided so. In the plenum, which met from 22 to 29 June, Molotov and his faction were defeated. Eventually he was banished, being made ambassador to the Mongolian Peoples Republic. Molotov and his associates were denounced as the Anti-Party Group but notably were not subject to such unpleasant repercussions that had been customary for denounced officials in the Stalin years. In 1960, he was appointed Soviet representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency, which was seen as a partial rehabilitation. However, after the 