Definition of "foreign minister" []

• A cabinet minister in charge of a nation's foreign affairs. (noun)

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• "From the first day of the December Geneva negotiations with Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko, Vance sensed that Moscow was looking for ways to postpone the final agreement, raising secondary and technical issues, and one matter that he saw as a red herring."
• "“From the Atlantic to the Red Sea”: 1. French foreign minister Théophile Delcassé; 2. Captain Jean-Baptiste Marchand, dreaming of Fashoda."
• "Shultz invited Carlucci to participate in the negotiations for the pending treaty on Intermediate Nuclear Forces with Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze."