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2005 Amman bombings

Minister for Foreign Affairs Erkki Tuomioja stated that "terrorism is to be condemned always and everywhere."

Australian Labor Party leadership spill, 2012

The Second Gillard Ministry was sworn in on 14 September 2010 by Governor-General Quentin Bryce, with Rudd accepting an offer from Gillard to become Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Canada–Australia Consular Services Sharing Agreement

Secretary of State for External Affairs of Canada and the Honourable Bill Hayden, M.P., Minister for Foreign Affairs of Australia exchanged notes to create the agreement.

Second Faymann cabinet

Minister for Foreign Affairs Sebastian Kurz is at the age of 27 the youngest person ever in Austria's history to become Federal Minister; he is also the youngest Minister for Foreign Affairs in the European Union.

Theodoros Pangalos

In 1996 he was appointed as a Minister for Foreign Affairs and held the post until his resignation in 1999, in the aftermath of the scandal involving the Kurdish nationalist leader, Abdullah Öcalan: helped by individual members of the Greek intelligence agencies Öcalan entered Greece illegally and was then deported to Kenya, where he was captured by Turkish agents after leaving the Greek embassy at Nairobi.


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Alfred Taban

On 30 October 2006, Taban was summoned and stated that he was liable for the content of a newspaper article dated 14 September 2006, which claimed that foreign minister, state minister for foreign affairs and the director of information and public relations, Lam Akol, are mouthpieces and perpetrators of genocide as well as Islamic extremists etc.

Ano Pala

Peter O'Neill became Prime Minister, and appointed Pala as his Minister for Foreign Affairs, Trade and Immigration.

Australian Labor Party leadership spill, 2012

On 22 February 2012 Rudd, who had been on government business overseas, gave a press conference from the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. announcing his resignation as Minister for Foreign Affairs, citing the attacks on him by Crean and others he described as "faceless men" within the party, as well as Gillard's unwillingness to condemn the attacks when given the opportunity.

Bakayoko

Youssouf Bakayoko (born 1943), Minister for Foreign Affairs of Côte d'Ivoire

Ballinlough, Cork

Micheál Martin - Current leader of the Fianna Fáil political party and former minister for Foreign Affairs, Education and Health, resides in Ballinlough.

Fuad I of Egypt

Queen Nazli also was a maternal granddaughter of Major-General Muhammad Sharif Pasha, sometime Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, and a great-granddaughter of Suleiman Pasha, a French officer in Napoleon's army who converted to Islam and reorganized the Egyptian army.

George Glynn Petre

Pungwe rivers and a satisfactory settlement was finally placed on record in the convention signed by Petre and the Portuguese minister for foreign affairs on 11 June 1891.

Mijailović

Mijailo Mijailović (born 1978), self-confessed and convicted assassin of the Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Anna Lindh, stabbed in 2003

Nguyen Huu Chanh

In 1995, was selected by a members of the Government of Free Vietnam as Prime Minister, General Linh Quang Vien as Vice Prime Minister, Admiral Lam Nguon Tanh as Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Nguyen Khac Chinh as the Minister of Information, Mr. Nguyen Huy Dau as Minister of Justice, Nguyen Son Ha as Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Edgar Foshee as Chairman of the International Committee, and Mr. Ngo Trong Anh as President of the advisory council.

Pakoa Kaltonga

Bakoa Kaltongga during his tenure as Minister for Foreign Affairs (left) pictured with Diplomatic Trade Commissioner Colin Evans (right)

Rasoherina

As a young woman, she married Raharolahy (Raharola), a successful statesman in his own right who received 15 state honors and served as Secretary to the Embassy to Great Britain (1836–37), Second Minister for Foreign Affairs in French matters (1862), Minister for the Interior (1862–64), Counselor of Government (1864–65) and Governor of Toamasina (1865).

Tavola

Kaliopate Tavola (born 1946), Fijian economist, diplomat, politician and Minister for Foreign Affairs

Tesco Ireland

The Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin said that consumers wanted to see large numbers of native products on the shelves of large supermarket chains.

Venice Conference

The conference was chaired by Christian Pineau, French Minister for Foreign Affairs, and attended by Walter Hallstein (Federal Republic of Germany), Paul-Henri Spaak (Belgium), Maurice Faure, French State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Gaetano Martino (Italy), Joseph Bech (Luxembourg) and Johan Willem Beyen (Netherlands).

Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences

The first rector of Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences was Artis Pabriks, the former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Latvia and the current Minister for Defence of Latvia.