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First Secretary

British  

noun

  1. the chief minister of the National Assembly for Wales

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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

Not far away was Faura, the First Secretary of the Spanish Legation.

From A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium by Gibson, Hugh