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4 unusual facts about Department of Foreign Affairs


Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development

Lynne Yelich serves as the Minister of State (Foreign Affairs and Consular).

Canada assumed progressively greater control over its foreign relations during and after World War I, and its full autonomy in this field was confirmed by the Statute of Westminster in 1931.

Leona Aglukkaq also falls under the Department in her capacity of Minister for the Arctic Council, in addition to holding the portfolios of Minister of the Environment and Minister of the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency.

This process was paralleled in other areas over this period, including the establishment of Canada's own Supreme Court as the court of last resort, the so-called Patriation of the Constitution, and Canadian citizenship (Canadians had been British subjects, and no citizenship per se existed until 1947).


Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771

On the evening of 12 May 2010, the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed that one of its passport holders was on the plane, novelist Bree O'Mara.

Geraldine Cox

Originally from Adelaide, Geraldine Cox was posted to Phnom Penh by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs in 1970.

Teresita Sy-Coson

In 2011, President Benigno Aquino III has chosen her as one member of the Association of Southeast Asian Business Advisory Council (ABAC) under the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA).


see also

Frances Adamson

Previous postings include Chief of Staff to Stephen Smith (2009–10), Deputy High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (2005–08), Representative to the Australian Commerce and Industry Office in Taipei (2000–05), the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (1998–2000), the Australian High Commission to the United Kingdom (1993–98) and in Hong Kong (1987–1991).

St Munchin's College

Tim O'Connor, formerly Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, former Secretary General to the Irish President, former Consul General of Ireland in New York, Chairman of 'The Gathering'