foreign minister
noun
(in countries other than the U.S.) a cabinet minister who conducts and supervises foreign and diplomatic relations with other states.
foreign ministry
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a word derived from
foreign minister.
Example Sentences
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It said its foreign ministry made dozens of calls to nudge peace along, and that President Xi Jinping himself had intervened with suggestions to end the fighting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
China's foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun told reporters on Monday "narratives of threat, confrontation, and malicious competition serve only to disrupt the process of global AI governance and are not in anyone's interest".
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
But China’s foreign ministry responded defensively to the U.S. debate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
India's foreign ministry said in a statement after the meeting that "the two leaders expressed commitment to a fair, reasonable, and mutually acceptable resolution of the boundary question".
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
On the first day of her disappearance—the date was October 12, 1976— she spent a day waiting in lines at the offices of the Zairean foreign ministry, trying to get her papers straight.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
