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First Secretary

British  

noun

  1. the chief minister of the National Assembly for Wales

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

Dominic Raab - as First Secretary of State - will stand in for the prime minister when needed.

From BBC • 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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