First Secretary
Britishnoun
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The Foreign Ministry said in a statement it had summoned U.S. envoy Lynne Tracy and told her that embassy First Secretary Jeffrey Sillin and Second Secretary David Bernstein must leave Russia within seven days.
From Reuters ● Sep. 14, 2023
The America First Secretary of State Coalition is chaired by Jim Marchant, the GOP secretary of state candidate in Nevada.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2022
In 1964, Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev was toppled from power; he was succeeded by Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and by Alexei Kosygin as Premier.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 14, 2020
As foreign secretary, Raab is formally the First Secretary of State, which gives him a certain superiority over other cabinet members, and therefore a natural pick for a successor in case of an emergency.
From Fox News ● Apr. 7, 2020
Praed is First Secretary to the Board of Control, and will do the business.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III by Greville, Charles
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